Ron Stallworth Quotes

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

I rarely carried a gun undercover.

I really wanted to be a spy. I guess it's a bit like acting, where you play a role.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

I concluded that infiltration of the Klan was the only way to get evidence that would stand up in court. There was no one else around to do it.

Drug people are the very vermin of humanity.... Occasionally we must adopt their dress and tactics.

I told him that Mrs. Carter and I would be deeply hurt and shocked and disappointed—because our daughter is only seven years old.

Marvel actually sent me to a school in the Bronx where I had a fake name, and I put on an accent, and I went for, like, three days. I basically had to go to this science school and blend in with all the kids, and some of the teachers didn't even know.

People say how unbelievable and enjoyable this whole thing must be. But watching your children play quarterback, putting themselves on the line every game, getting smacked around and bloodied up... it's very, very hard.

My mother often tells me not to drive back home late in the night. But like all youngsters, I suggest that there is nothing to worry. I tell her I have my driver, I have my security.

Like acting, undercover detective work requires a lot of performance. There's just more pressure because it's life-or-death situations.

I had to stay in the house a lot because my Mom didn't want to see me on the news. I wasn't a bad child. She just didn't want me in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I wanted to be an undercover cop, blending in with the public, looking like a black militant or a long-haired hippie yet having a gun on my hip, a badge in my wallet, and able to enforce the law. To me, that was the neatest thing in the world. It was also challenging.

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.

Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.

When I became a cadet, I immediately decided I wanted to be an undercover cop because I don't like uniforms.

At various times in my undercover career I had either a full beard, a short-cropped beard, Fu Manchu, a plain simple moustache or just a goatee. We did that - generally we would have a look that we would maintain for anywhere from 3 to 6 months.

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

Interested in some ‘undercover’ work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.

You can call me Agent Mickelson,' he told me with a smile. 'What about you? Is Max short for something? Maxine?' 'No, Dean. It's just Max.

They won't talk to you because I'm undercover.

The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by another name and another occupation. None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.