Don’t want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
What’s the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he’s gay?
There are things you stand up for because it’s right.
There’re two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
We eat up artists like there’s going to be a famine at the end.
If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I’d touch you-risking my life-not because I’m brave or strong, but because I’m fascinated by what the outcome would be.
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.
My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.
I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.
I don’t have a life-style, I have a life.
I hope that, reading ‘Rosa,’ people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.
I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It’s really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.