Revolutionaries Don't Get Job Security. They Compete

You Just Try To Do Everything That Comes Up. Get Up An Hour Earlier, Stay Up An Hour Later, Make The Time. Then You Look Back And Say, ‘well, That Was A Neat Piece Of Juggling There -- School, Marriage, Babies, Career.’ The Enthusiasms Took Me Through The Action, Not The Measuring Of It Or The Reasonableness.

My Dream Was I Was Going To Be An Actor. Racism Occurred To Me. It Dawned On Me That I Would Not Be An Actor. It Occurred To Me That I Was Not White. It Occurred To Me That Being What They Call Colored, Being A Negro, Was Some Kind Of A Disadvantage.

The World Has Improved Mostly Because Unorthodox People Did Unorthodox Things. Not Surprisingly, They Had The Courage And Daring To Think They Could Make A Difference.

I Don't Want To Have My Children Have To Get Dressed Up To Go Out To Say Good Morning And Deserve To Live Among Some Other People. I Want To Be Able To Be Free And Take For Granted That My Neighbors Like Me And I Like Them.

I Never Thought About Myself As An Activist When We Were Coming Along. I Wasn't A Joiner. You Know, I Love The People I Love. I Didn't Care Whether - They Could Be A Democrat, Republican, Communist, You Know, And Anything But A Racist.