The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

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

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

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

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

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.