Black History Month should be celebrated everyday. It's a month that's kind of sad to me, because I am reminded of the struggles that people before u….

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around..

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up..

I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves..

What can go wrong will go wrong..

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me..

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

Miracles happen all the time. We're here, aren't we?.

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person..

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element..

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too..

The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition..

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem..

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, un….

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the eart….

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word..