I Loved The Feeling Of Freedom In

When I Was Going Through My Transition Of Being Famous, I Tried To Ask God, Why Was I Here? What Was My Purpose? Surely, It Wasn't Just To Win Three Gold Medals. There Has To Be More To This Life Than That.

What Do You Do After You Are World-famous And Nineteen Or Twenty And You Have Sat With Prime Ministers, Kings And Queens, The Pope? Do You Go Back Home And Take A Job? What Do You Do To Keep Your Sanity? You Come Back To The Real World.

I Believe In Me More Than Anything In This World.

I Tell Them That The Most Important Aspect Is To Be Yourself And Have Confidence In Yourself.

I Know Black Women In Tennessee Who Have Worked All Their Lives, From The Time They Were Twelve Years Old To The Day They Died. These Women Don't Listen To The Women's Liberation Rhetoric Because They Know That It's Nothing But A Bunch Of White Women Who Had Certain Life-styles And Who Want To Change Those Life-styles.