I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

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

If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.

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

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

I" ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

The older we get the less afraid we are.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

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

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

I defend myself by improving myself.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.