There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.

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.

Luck, I believe, is where preparation meets opportunity.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

The worship of God should be done without expecting anything in return

If they don't like you for who you are, it means they're not meant to be in your life.

Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.

The word Hare is the word that calls upon the energy that's around the Lord. If you say the mantra enough, you build up an identification with God.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.