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.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

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.

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.