Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

We will then hear from the founder of the Mayo Clinic . . . Dr. Ted Clinic.

I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

It is a human demolition derby!

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.