The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

I come as one, but stand as 10,000.