I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction, and, as far as I can see, those to whom it was first delivered regarded it in that light, so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command; and in place of seeking to assign a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.
When the music and dance create with accord. . . their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.
One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.