An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.
In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.
Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.
You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.
I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.
I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.
How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're far, far away and this is just a dream.
Charmed is fun and light, one of those shows that let you turn your brain off for an hour.