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.

The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we've got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

You're going to be a great player, kid.

I'm not goin' anywhere, I'm right here!

I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are demanding that we just be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we're not looking for anything else.