My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

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

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

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.