"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."

"No Viet Cong ever called me n****r."

"Why should I go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?"

"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it."

"I'm not a hater. I don't hate nobody."