I Know That I Am A Black

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.

It Kills Me To Lose. If I'm A Troublemaker, And I Don't Think That My Temper Makes Me One, Then It's Because I Can't Stand Losing. That's The Way I Am About Winning, All I Ever Wanted To Do Was Finish First.

I Ought To Break This Trophy Into 32 Pieces

The Many Of Us Who Attain What We May And Forget Those Who Help Us Along The Line We've Got To Remember That There Are So Many Others To Pull Along The Way. The Farther They Go, The Further We All Go.

I Don't Think That I Or Any Other Negro, As An American Citizen, Should Have To Ask For Anything That Is Rightfully His. We Are Demanding That We Just Be Given The Things That Are Rightfully Ours And That We're Not Looking For Anything Else.