Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

With what we give, we make a life.

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.

It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am.

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.