Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.

I am the dream and the hope of the slave

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.

All great acheivements require time.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.