"Emotions. Swelling waves that we are so often powerless to navigate. Is there some meaning to them? Of course, you just have to learn how to properly manage them."

“I'd love to give Malcolm the truck. We're going to figure out how to make that happen.”

“The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.”

“We as black have to remind ourselves that we are a great people and we come from a great lineage. How can we say that we were Kings and Queens during ancient civilization but then turn around and say, 'we don't have privilege.' Who said that? What is that based on? Is that based on the white man's definition of privilege and what this system is showing us? Yes, of course.”

“I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.”

“Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.”

“You can't win what you don't fight for.”

Source : Joan Steinau Lester, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Coretta Scott King (2004). “Fire in My Soul”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”

“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”