The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and what could be again.

You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.