I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.
George Wallace is gone; Bull Connor is dead. He's not coming back.
When George Washington and the others created U. S. independence, they did not free the slaves; not long ago, a U. S. black athlete could not play baseball in the major leagues. And yet you called yours the freest country in the world.
In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being in the White House. You have to feel good about it.
People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].
Freedom's Journal
The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.
