The older we get the less afraid we are.

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

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

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.