“I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.”

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.

We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.

We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.

Keep hope alive!

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.

You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.

I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.