- Jack Johnson: I have found no better way in avoiding race prejudice than to act with people of other races as if prejudice did not exist.
- Jack Johnson: If and suppose, two small words, but nobody has ever been able to explain them. One man falls out of bed and is killed, another falls from a fifty foot scaffold and lives. One man gets shot in the leg and is killed, another gets a bullet in the brain and lives. I always take a chance on my pleasures.