A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check one keenly watching the other.

My contribution to film has always been negligible.

It was incredible to me that members of one community could kill members of another not for anything personal that they did but simply based on their identity.

Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.