"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my bedroom and was in bed before the room was dark."

"I don't have to be what you want me to be. I am free to be me."

"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me."

"I'm not going to fight for the white man's country."

"My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never …"