"The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice."

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

“My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.”

“When you wake up in the middle of the night and you hear a scary sound, you're not picturing yourself getting the girl, you're not picturing yourself winning the prize and becoming a hero. What makes you scared is the fear that you're gonna die, or that something horrific is gonna happen. So while I'm not opposed to happy ending, or wherever the story is naturally supposed to go-I do end up finding that I like movies where you almost end up feel, at best, that the character survived it more than championed over it.”

“We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on this planet, is unlimited.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Oct 17, 2012

“people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.”

“I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.”

“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.”

“If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?”