So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.

Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.

Someone stole my bicycle and I said I was going to learn to fight so that I could catch him and beat him up. But I never did catch him. But I ended up the champ of the whole world.

Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be.

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.