Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.