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

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

I had two roles for which I compromised.

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.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

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