“Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.”

I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.

I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.

People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.

My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.

Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…

So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.

You deal with their balance over the long run.

The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.

President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.

I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.

We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.

Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,

I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.

There is nothing–no circumstance, no trouble, no testing–that can ever touch me until.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.