Our Quotes

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

Your world is as big as you make it.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime.

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.

There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.