"The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed. While the Weary Blues echoed through his head."

"Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly."

"I remember the days when I was a kid and I used to go to the movies and sit in the balcony. And I would see the white kids downstairs, and I would be up there with all the other colored kids."

"I have been a victim of a kind of intellectual lynching."

"I have had my say about the world, and the world has had its say about me."