This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.

A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.

Gun for sure is louder than a Pen, bullet is hotter than Ink, but Death is not a silencer for Pen.

The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.

I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

Sports are not for everyone.

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"