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

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

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 I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

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.