We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

There are just traces of me and not a shadow left…Without the traces of your iridescence to make my silhouette.

In the storm, our only anchor is hope.

Tori gazed out on the calm Ancific Ocean across which, incredibly, she would be taking a coach.

Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?

Im a truly loved kid, and hopefully it will make me a happier adult.

I wanna be the villain. Villains have fun.

I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.

Jesus is who saved me. He's what keeps me full and whole.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.

Good leaders must first become good servants.