It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

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.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so.

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.

Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.

I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.

What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.