I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My ….

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning..

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse..

Our political divides have become our personal divides..

Very few people have actually had a chance to see the raw material that was going to comprise these three chapters [of Malcolm X Autobiography]. The ….

You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived..

Say something worth the words..

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors..

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature..

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles..

Do what is absolutely you and nobody else..

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook..

When I hit one over, I knew I was good..

We don't really make friends, they make us..

It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in larg….

There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts..

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, an….

I don't belong to anyone..

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being..