The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction.

Tracy had never been so conscious of the sky above the earth, the dangerous clouds that gathered there, the way humans lived beneath such grandeur and threat every moment of their lives.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

I'm not the girl to keep all the emotions I have inside. I guess I have to pay lots of fines because that's the way I am.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

There are lots of levels of fear and complaint about the government getting involved in business. First and foremost, of course, is incompetence.

I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.

The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.