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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
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"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did."
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"It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be."
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"I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do."
"Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too."
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"All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for."
"If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person."
"I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise."
"I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the seams. We were in Southeast Asia. Good men were dying for America and for the Constitution."
"I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America."
"Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did."
"Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment."
"I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life."
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