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

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

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.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.

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.