My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

When you arrive at the destination, never forget where the journey began.

There is no politically neutral fence available for us to sit on, and our attempts to do so have the consequence (intended or not) of supporting the existing political system.

Games are like Rorschachs made of human relationships.

Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

So sweet and precious is family life.

My band and I, we cover our bodies in hairspray and glitter. We use the hairspray to make sure the glitter sticks.

At some point, I told myself: the dress doesn’t own you, you own the dress! So act like it and attack.

It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.