Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

Stretch your mind and fly.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!

burnt by the sunof your mouth, I’m unable to speak or paint you with words

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

i told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i? ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

Sometimes there are no answers.

I'm doing this [running for presidency] for the people and for the movement, and we will take back this country for you and we will make America great again.

To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.

If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.