I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.

If you think of the moon as already used, it’s not as difficult to take in, because then it’s just like you, Traveled the world like you, Seen the globe like you, But, it’s still bright.

The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.

There are other ways of knowing than just through reason.

Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.

Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.

I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.