Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'
I was in a movie called 'Before & After' with Meryl Streep. I was edited out of the movie, but no one told me. I think I was 18 or 19 years old. I sat across from her and asked her every question about acting. I completely embarrassed myself.
There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.
Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.
The world doesn't realise I have a regular job!
The majority of people don't even realise I was a tennis player. The older you get, the less people remember what you did before.
Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.
Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.
I never feel like I've done anything. Swear to God. I'm not kidding. So it's always a surprise when somebody asks me to do anything.
I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
I'm an athlete who took the sport to another level. I don't get or ever got the respect from people.
Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.
What's funny about my resume is so much of what I've done has not been seen.
I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.
Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.
I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.
To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.
I've done nothing with my life but write plays.
I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.
I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.
He is remembered chiefly as the man about whom all is forgotten.
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
