Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more. — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes upon the horizon and once we have attached ourselves to that star we must keep… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more. — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness. — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards. — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
“... Harlem was home; was where we belonged; where we knew and were known in return; where we felt most alive; where, if need… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together. — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back. — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child. — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
