Work, Mrs. Hill knew, might not be a cure for all ailments, but it was a sovereign remedy against the more brooding kinds.

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.

I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.

Life is like a school, we are the student of it: Experience is our Teacher.

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

Growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.