You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.

Develop your soul into independence!

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

Bad things happen sometimes.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

Maroon 5 is crazy to me, I would love to work with them.