You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.

Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."

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.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.