Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.

I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control.

I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.

I do not run from beauty, my own or anyone else's. If it is a gift, I claim it and I use it. And if it is a curse, well...I claim it and use it." Victoria da Vinci

Time, let me vanish. Then what we separate by our very presence can come together.

The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)

It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything.

Wake up, life does get tough. No need to stress, holds you back too much.

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

The standard of beauty is not definite. We define it.

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.

It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.