"So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness."

"I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect."

"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be."

"As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents."

"So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether."

"A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another."

"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."

"I'll always be chasing you... Glory."

"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."

"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."

"The journey has been incredible from its beginning."

"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."

"I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life."

"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."

"But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."

"So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one."

"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important."

"In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man."

"I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people."

"So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was."

"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."

"If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't."

"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection."

"My autobiography was simply the story of my life."

"I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so."

"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."

"History passes the final judgment."