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 a…

- Ossie Davis

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

- Ossie Davis

It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

- Ossie Davis

We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes upon the horizon and o…

- Ossie Davis

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.

- Ossie Davis

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

- Ossie Davis

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

- Ossie Davis

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

- Ossie Davis

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

- Ossie Davis