Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

You shouldn't bear humiliations.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we had entrepreneurship in the black community. Right now, in Harlem, if I wanted to get a shoe repaired, I would have a hard time finding a black shoe repairman. On near about every third corner, you could find a decent black barber, decent black laundry, had restaurants in the neighborhood that were open 24 hours. The food was good at 3 o'clock in the morning as at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on him to do for you what you can do for yourself.