Foreword p. 9
The Sword or the Cross, Which Should be the Weapon of the Christian Militant? (1921)
“It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.”
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Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/09/03/random_thoughts?page=full&comments=true, Sep 03, 2007
2000s

As quoted in The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros (2006) by Mark Tier, p. 219
Context: The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money. But I hate to think what would have happened if I hadn't made money: My ideas would not have gotten much play.

“They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.”

“I am what I am: an individual, unique and different”
My Autobiography (p. 271 Simon and Schuster 1964 edition)
Context: I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.

Quote from De Kooning's lecture Trans/formation, at Studio 35, 1950.
1950's

"Paths to Success: A Forum on African American Men" panel discussion (July 18, 2006), quoted in [Fulbright, Leslie, http://www.nospank.net/n-q19r.htm, Cosby, Others Say Black Men Still in Crisis, San Francisco Chronicle, (July 19, 2006)]

“The people in my life made me what I am.”
Source: It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership (2012), p. 279