Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.