A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

If I can make it, you can make it.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.