I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.

I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.