I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.