I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children.

I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we have all faced based upon race and based upon social and spiritual humiliation.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

shall we dance into the perpetual torture of our union once more?

The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

At the root of all this is purity. Where there is purity there love grows. When purity and love come together, there is bliss.