“Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.”
“My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.”