"Now, when we go into a park on the road people start booing me. You don't know how good that makes me feel. To me it …"

"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it in…"

"I was 'colored' until I was 14, a Negro until I was 21 and a black man ever since."

"I did very little against two lefties, Mike Caldwell and Scott McGregor, for a few years anyway. Eventually, I caught…"

"As he was going around [the bases], I was applauding into my glove. [...] I have never seen anything like that in a c…"

"No wonder you're all mixed up. You got a white man's first name, a Spanish man's second name, and a black man's third…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."