You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

In person, Mr. Desmond mixes low-key friendliness and on-message discipline.

Everyone should have a hippie painter anarchist in their lives. It's the guys in silvered aviators with guns that you've got to be wary of.

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

Come my, heart, up and away!

Some Argentines, without means, do it, People say, in Boston , even beans do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love .

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.

I made my money the old-fashioned way, I inherited it.

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.