A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them.

I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.