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

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.

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 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.

When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.

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

I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.