Racism and hatred are synonymous.

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn’t have gotten me out of my books with a wedge...Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.