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

- 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

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 …

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

- Ossie Davis