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" I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. "

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" 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 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. "

" My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. "

" Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's. "

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

" 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. "

" My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man. "

" I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species. "

" I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me. "

" Jackie Robinson is a true legend. "

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

" In America, it is difficult to be your own man. "

" My wife collects knickknacks. "

" Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth. "

" History passes the final judgment. "

" The journey has been incredible from its beginning. "

" I have always been a learner because I knew nothing. "

" If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty. "

" I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. "

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

" I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable. "

" As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents. "

" 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. "

" Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no. "

" I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be. "

" I get offered work these days. "