I am pleased that God made my skin black - but I wish He had made it thicker.

The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.

There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

I'd often wondered what would I do if I were ever traded, because it happened many, many times.

I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.

Before you attack the porcupine, think of its quills!

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.