"I would like to grow less afraid of dying. I am infinitely less afraid today than I was 15 or 25 years ago. I was mos…"

"If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things—you feel that after death, you w…"

"When you’re addressing power, don’t expect it to crumble willingly. If you’re going to say, "Hey now, look you guys, …"

"A lot of black leaders, along with a lot of sympathetic white people, would say it’s too early in this country for fo…"

"Compassion for other human beings has to extend to the society that’s been grinding the powerless under its heel. The…"

"The great disease of mankind is ignorance. With knowledge you can grasp tight a belief: that you can be better, that …"

"The country is going through a crisis and I've been thrown up as this kind of public figure because I'm the top Negro…"

"let's face it, I am a Negro writer. Sidney Poitier, you know, is not simply an actor; he's a Negro actor. He's not si…"

"Yeah, that story’s not finished. We have more things written already and figured out for it to finish, but somebody’s…"

"The kids’ business of animation is pretty much gone at this point, but adult animation has been steadily rising for t…"