I got my start by giving myself a start.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

IT'S PRETTY HARD for the Lord TO GUIDE YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE UP YOUR MIND WHICH WAY TO GO.

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.

I am not ashamed of my past. I am not ashamed of my humble beginning.

Perseverance is my motto.

I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.

One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.

If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind!

As in most fairy tales, there's a prince and a princess, dragons and some magic, and the feeling it gives you that anything is possible if we could stay this way forever.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.

Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are not all that determine success. It is power.

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.

When you don't need to play the victim or create victims you are FREE

Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television.