“If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed.”

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener.

The lessons of nonviolence are universal.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.

Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It’s not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.

Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.

You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.

I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.

You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.

I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.

I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.

Races don’t fall in love, genders don’t fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater.

I’ve always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can’t do it any other way.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality.

I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results.

Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.

I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire, faith leaps over it.

I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I’ve always thought.

What we believe about ourselves is often times a reflection of how we feel god looks at us.