Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.