I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.
Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.
To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
A tourist is an ugly human being.
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
If a man is to become fully himself - and this is not something that happens automatically just because you arrive at a particular age - he is going to have to give up some things in the process. Be it drugs, infidelity, childishness, lying, fear of intimacy, violence - none of these things contribute to being a man