To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

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.

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.