Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance.

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'