A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

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.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

I am the me I choose to be.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.