You see, " I said, "I'm a socialist. I don't think this world was made for a small minority to dance on the faces of everyone else.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

Virtue knows no color line.

Those who commit the murders write the reports.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

The appetite grows for what it feeds on.

Call it anything else if you will—fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating—but “shyness” is the historic word for it.

Pierre [from Dude, Where's My Car?] could be the best thing I've ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort.

With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.

Stunner! Stunner! He got all of it by God!

There are pockets of the church that will "give up," and reap a bountiful harvest. They are going to have huge success, like the church has never experienced since the Book of Acts.

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.