I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

The older we get the less afraid we are.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

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

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.