Look at me! I'm big! I'm strong! I'm a superior example of froghood and capable of protecting us both!

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

Give light, and people will find the way...

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you love very much

You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

If you are still searching for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

A negative experience suggests to the mind on how to feel, but the mind decides whether to embrace it or feel otherwise.

When he won, it proved that God was on his side. When he didn't win, it meant that God wanted him to try harder.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow.

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.