So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!

Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.

It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.

When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.

The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves