I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.

If you expect someone else to guide you, you'll be lost.

I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.