I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.
It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.
It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
I'm a real rebel with a cause.
I believe in racial memory too. I'm sure I've got ancient African blood in me that has something to do with what I am.
The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.
Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.
That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.