I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

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.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

I don't very often read novels.

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.