You cannot fool an audience.

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Love did not die. I still create your image to my heart every solitary night.

That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out

The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

I'm not the betting kind.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.