Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people..

I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards..

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom..

The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding ….

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness..

The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent..

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race..

Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is..

I get criticized for anything I do..

When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race..

For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly..

When you cross the line and you've won the race, to me, it's an amazing feeling..

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. ….

Your life isn't out of control. It's expanded..

Stand by those who stand by you..

I am a rank individualist..

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man..

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race….

I learned so much from Tony Danza I learned so much about myself..

No one can be Rihanna, except for Rihanna.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves..