You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

Whenever we suffer — no matter what the severity of our suffering is — we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.

To be successful you have to be dumb enough to think you can change the world and smart enough to know how.

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.

When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was "Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy...

I'm a sucker for interiors and carefully, beautifully filmed people sitting in a big room. My appetites are simple.

I knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move.

A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.