"For a time, I was a national hero. But then I came home, and I was just another colored man."

"I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either."

"The only way to be happy is to do what you love."

"I always loved running...it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted."

"The only way to be truly free is to be yourself."