When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

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.

My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

Everything has its advantages and disadvantages.

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.

The keys to life are running and reading.