I don't like needing anyone for anything.

Life is not a spectator sport.

I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

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.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.