“I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”

Speaking on his problems with the paparazzi, as quoted in the National Post (May 2001).

Court testimony of Virginia Graham as to what her confessed murderer Susan Atkins (aka Sadie Mae Glutz) had said were among her last words (9 August 1969). Atkins said she responded to this with: "Look, bitch, you might as well face it right now, you're going to die, and I don't feel a thing behind it."

Last words (mouthed). http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/07/heart-attack-killed-suffering-hugo-chavez-head-venezuela-presidential-guard/ <br class="br">2013

&quot; Death (A Play) http://books.google.com/books?id=qjRaAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22It&#x27;s+not+that+I&#x27;m+afraid+to+die+I+just+don&#x27;t+want+to+be+there+when+it+happens%22&amp;pg=PA99#v=onepage&quot;. <br class="br">Without Feathers (1975)

Responding to a press conference question as to whether he was a &quot;card-carrying&quot; member of the Black Muslims, as quoted in The New York Times (27 February 1964) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EF7355D17738DDDAE0A94DA405B848AF1D3; also in Sports Illustrated (9 March 1964). <br class="br">Context: I believe in Allah and in peace. I don&#x27;t try to move into white neighborhoods. I don&#x27;t want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn&#x27;t know what I was doing. I&#x27;m not a Christian anymore. I know where I&#x27;m going and I know the truth, and I don&#x27;t have to be what you want me to be... I&#x27;m free to be what I want.

Source: Red Harvest

Source: Flowers for Algernon