Jackie Robinson

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Plenty of times I wanted to haul off when somebody insulted me for the color of my skin, but I had to hold to myself. I knew I was kind of an experiment. The whole thing was bigger than me.

I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

What you do makes a difference. And you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.- William Penn

The only wealth is life.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

When one has tasted it Watermelon he knows what the angels eat.