I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.
I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.
I always say that every win has something that is special.
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.
You name it and I've done it. I'd like to say I did it my way. But that line, I'm afraid, belongs to someone else.
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.