Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?

When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till.

If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.

You will be what you are, and whatever it is, you will be fine. Everyone has to accept that and love you for who you are; it doesn’t really matter where your heritage comes from

Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

We just couldn't hit shots. We had good looks but they weren't falling and we kept turning the ball over.

We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

I've never been sentimental about my horse. The horse doesn't give a damn about you. If you want to know the truth - horses are dumb.