It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.