- [on living in Brooklyn as a teenager] To come to East New York from a foster home run by Christians was a shock. I constantly caught beatings from black people for no reason. The whites used to beat me up too, because they thought I was Puerto Rican due to my dark hair. The whole neighborhood was brutal.
- [on being a fugitive for two years] Stuff like that doesn't bother me. Actually, I don't feel good unless I have someone hunting me down. I like knowing that people are concerned about by whereabouts. It makes me feel alive. It makes me feel wanted.
- Acting on stage and in film kept me in balance. I was hanging around with some very dangerous people in Brooklyn where I lived and then I was with these actors, and neither knew about the other. I could walk on the wild side and then go into the theater like I was civilized.
- [on why he turned himself into the authorities after being a fugitive for two years] Cardinal O'Connor is a prince of the church. If the Cardinal says something and you don't listen, then when you stand before the magistrate in the celestial court... you got problems. And I got enough problems without God being mad at me.
- History will show that abortion in New York State was nothing more than the dissipation of the black and Puerto Rican populace. That's where most of the kills were.
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