Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

You can't take 11 [million people ] at one time and just say, boom, you're gone.

Using numerology to count the people I sent to heaven, Produces more digits than 22 divided by 7.

I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.