Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

My future depends mostly upon myself.

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

To be ordinary is a choice, for everyone has it in them to become extraordinary.

Seasickness in itself is not contagious, but I’m pretty sure that puking is extremely contagious.

Remember us. Remember us as we used to be, before the universe turned against us. Young, beautiful, strong, brave, admirable, loved, loving...' --Alema Rar

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Big dreams are so damn tiring.

There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players.

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.