My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.
Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.
To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.
Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.
At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.
When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.
Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.
The problem with American power is not that it is American. The problem is simply the power. It would be dangerous even for an archangel to wield so much power.
I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.
I do a happy dance even when I get a guest-star role.
Be not afraid of those trials which God may see fit to send upon thee. It is with the wind and the storm of tribulation that God, in the garner of the soul, separates the true wheat from the chaff. Always remember, therefore, that God comes to thee in thy sorrows as really as in thy joys. He lays low and He builds up. Thou wilt find thyself far from perfection if thou dost not find God in everything.