People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

We could all get along if we just hang out at iSurfing.

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.