We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.

I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.

You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.