Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

The Negro was invented in America.

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

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Alchemy: In times of recession it's not wise to argue about the price of gold.

The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

DONT praise her lovely EYES, UNLESS you have a LOVELY FACE.

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.

Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.