My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York City form of discrimination. It's, it's both discrimination; it's all discrimination.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.

I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.