Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.
Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.
A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity.
Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.
I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.
It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will take time for him to build it. But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight.
When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.
Freedom cannot exist alone.