The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

It stands for diversity. It stands for vision and strength. It stands for belief in the right things. That's what I think it stands for.

The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between...the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.

I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.

I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated then, just with the Nazis.

I'm sure there was people in Australia that told Peter Norman that hey, man, you shouldn't have done what you did, you shouldn't have gotten involved in those individuals, it wasn't your business.

I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.

Peter Norman's a man's man.

[Peter Norman]was born and raised under the auspices of his mom and dad being involved in the Salvation Army. He believed in humanity. At all costs, he believed in humanity.

Famously sunny Los Angeles has long been known as the homeless capital of America, from beachy communities like Santa Monica and Venice to Skid Row downtown.

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

Those who Discover the High Sea are the ones who are FREE to Be what they Want to Be. -RVM

The emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so it will take form. - Charless Haanel P.g29

In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.

If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.