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

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.

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

I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.

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

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.