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The journey has been incredible from its beginning.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.