...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.

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.

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.

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.

Some people write letters, in the library.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!

The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.

Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.

I think Tim Wakefield would even say tonight that Tim Wakefield got to Tim Wakefield tonight.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.