Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?

If everybody agrees with your point of view, you haven't thought hard enough.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying it

Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world.

Never paint your wife or your mother.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible.

Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?