I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces

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.

Get to know how to rely on yourself and think independently and never wait for savior

Change is the mother of growth and maturity.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.

Come on, Kaylee, before I choke on testosterone and melodrama.

I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

I have such a little face.