I may forget my dignity, but you may not.
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!
There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.
The more grateful you are for everything good that comes into your life, the more closely you place your mind in contact with that power in life that can produce greater good.
Let your face speak what's in your heart.
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.