I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.