Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

Help without expecting a direct or immediate payback. You will get rewarded.

The smell of the ocean, southern breeze, blue sky, and the gentle sound of dancing waves make me sing the song of love.

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.

You gotta be think'n Sam Adams, not drink'n Sam Adams

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.