There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.