Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

History is written by winners.