If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition- about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive.

Some of you young folks been saying to me, 'Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderf…

Of course man is useful to man, because his body is a marvellous machine and his mind an organ of wonderful efficiency. But he is a spirit as well, and this sp…

The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.