In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

“Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.” 

“The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.” 

“Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.”

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.”

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.”

“I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.” 

“You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.” 

“If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.” 

“Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.” 

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.” 

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.” 

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Nothing will work unless you do.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.