“I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.”

UFC Go Big press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VViRqMfStU4 (September 2015) Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC <br class="br">2010s, 2015

Daily Mail interview

Interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer.

How It Feels to Be Colored Me (1928)
Context: Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It is beyond me.
But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless. A first-water diamond, an empty spool, bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held — so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place — who knows?

60 Minutes interview (2006)

Phil Spector’s final interview before jail https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interviews/phil-spectors-final-interview-jail-tortured-soul/, 17 January 2021.

Source: Dear John

Death: Live It! p. 57
Death: Live It! (2005)