In his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela famously remarked:

During his time at Michigan, he wrote his autobiography A Taste of Freedom.

In his 1991 autobiography Dees wrote that in 1962 he represented Ku Klux Klan member Claude Henley who faced Federal charges for attacking Freedom Riders in an incident documented by a Life magazine photographer.

Bok's autobiography, Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America, published by St. Martin's Press, chronicles his life, from his early youth, his years in captivity, to his work in the United States as an abolitionist.

His autobiography, Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America, was published in 2003 by St. Martin's Press.

Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama is the second autobiography of the 14th Dalai Lama, released in 1991.

In February 2012, Elba finally confirmed the rumours that he would portray former South African President Nelson Mandela in the film based on the autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.

During his incarceration in the special unit of Barlinnie Prison, he turned to art and wrote an autobiography, A Sense of Freedom ( 1977 ), which has since been filmed and starred David Hayman as Jimmy.

Kossuth wrote a one-volume autobiography, published in English in 1880 as Memoirs of My Exile.

* The Hite Report on Shere Hite: Voice of a Daughter in Exile ( 2000 ) ( autobiography )

According to director Ann Hui, he remarked Hui's acclaimed 1990 drama, Song of the Exile, " Who wants to watch the autobiography of a fat woman?

In 1955, Jaroslav Drobný published his autobiography titled Champion in Exile.

Jahangir himself is far from modest in his autobiography when he states his prowess at being able to determine the artist of any portrait by simply looking at a painting.

In her autobiography Thank Heaven she states that she became an American citizen — evidently based on her mother having been born in the United States — in time to vote for Barack Obama for president.

Although he had been inactive for two and a half years, his work as a dancer kept him in peak physical condition: in his autobiography, Robinson states that in the weeks leading up to his debut for a dancing engagement in France, he ran five miles every morning, and then danced for five hours each night.

In his autobiography, Robinson states that by 1965 he was broke, having spent all of the $ 4 million in earnings he made inside and out of the ring in his career.

In Webb's autobiography ( Published in July 2011 ) Webb states, " The house in Indianapolis where I was born and which I dimly remember ..." Webb's birthplace is listed as Indianapolis in The Internet Movie Data Base, Who's Who in America, the New York Times obituary ( Oct. 13, 1966 ), The Indianapolis News obituary ( October 14, 1966 ).

Norton was given the motivational book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, which he states in his autobiography, Going the Distance, changed his life

In his autobiography, Gielgud states repeatedly and clearly that his father was Polish Catholic, and mentions Gelgaudiškis as being his ancestral home whence his family and their surname originated.

DeLorean states in his autobiography that he sold life insurance to improve his communications skills.

However, film director Franco Zeffirelli, who claims to have known her well, states in his autobiography that Magnani was born in Alexandria, Egypt to an Italian Jewish mother and Egyptian father, and that " only later did she become Roman, when her grandmother brought her from Egypt and raised her in one of the Roman slum districts.

His obituary in Variety Magazine states that there he was wounded and captured by the British on the second day of combat, but Kinski's autobiography claims he made a conscious decision to desert.

In his autobiography, What's it All About, Caine states that he “ still wakes up sweating in the night as he sees Terence agreeing to accept my advice to take the role in Alfie ”.

In his autobiography “ Glory Days ,” Pontiac chief marketing manager Jim Wangers, who worked for the division ’ s contract advertising and public relations agency, states that John DeLorean, Bill Collins and Russ Gee were indeed responsible for the GTO's creation.

") In his autobiography, Wowereit states that his decision to come out in public was made because after his nomination as candidate to become the Mayor of Berlin, he felt that the German tabloids were already " on the right track ".

In her autobiography Pauline Hanson describes a two-week affair she states she had with David Oldfield.

As he states in his autobiography, he " became something of a fanatic " and " the first Socialist to join the Indian Civil Service " in 1907, and was posted to Lahore in the Punjab in 1908.

Bischoff responded by allegedly throwing coffee at Guerrero ( however, in his autobiography, Guerrero states that Bischoff accidentally knocked his coffee off the table and that it was a complete accident that he was hit ).

The ex-Royal Kumari Rashmila Shakya states in her autobiography From Goddess to Mortal ( 2005 ) that this has nothing to do with the selection process, but rather is a ritual the Royal Kumari goes through each year, and that there are no men dancing around in masks trying to scare her, and that at most there are only a dozen or so decapitated animal heads in the scary room test.

In his autobiography, Sammartino states that he believed McMahon set him up, by double-booking him and not informing him of his match in Baltimore, as a way of punishment for working for Kwariani.

In his autobiography, Against the Tide ( 2007 ), he states that " In the fall of 2003, part of me thought it was cowardly to oppose the president on so many issues and then not oppose him head-on as he sought renomination.

( In his autobiography, Plummer states that Cornell was his ' sponsor .').

Delany explained in his autobiography The Motion of Light in Water the reason that they married in Detroit was because of their ages and because he was African-American and she was Caucasian, and " there were only two states in the union where we could legally wed.

Although Marcus states that " What actually happened will not be known until information from the French archives becomes available ," Fitawrari (" Commander of the Vanguard ") Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariyam, a fervent reformer and a onetime friend of Iyasu, states in his recently published autobiography that the Djibouti trip was something of a vacation for Lij Iyasu, and that he spent much of his time consorting with Muslim notables in the city and consuming large amounts of qat as well as completely depleting the funds of the Ethiopian mission in the French colony.

David Niven, who participated in Channel raids, states in his autobiography The Moon's a Balloon that the commandos who landed on Sark were taken to the local pub by the locals for a drink.

In 2007, Clarence Thomas published his autobiography, My Grandfather's Son, in which he revisited the controversy, calling Hill his " most traitorous adversary " and saying that pro-choice liberals who feared that he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade if he were seated on the Supreme Court used the scandal against him.

Lerner wrote in his autobiography ( as quoted by The New York Times ): " All I can say is that if I had no flair for marriage, I also had no flair for bachelorhood.

In his autobiography, " My Life ", Burt Reynolds recalls Lemmon as the quintessential gentleman who never spoke ill of anybody, even if they deserved it.

He also enjoyed painting, and claimed in his autobiography that he might have been happier as a painter than a movie star, if somewhat poorer.

He strongly hinted in this autobiography that if there had been co-operation between the two teams the tragedy of R101 could well have been averted.

Between 1975 and 1980, she created such characters as Roseanne Roseannadanna, an obnoxious woman with wild black hair whose trademark complaint, " It's always something -- if it ain't one thing, it's another ", gave her autobiography its title, and who would tell stories about the gross habits of celebrities on the show's " Weekend Update " news segment, inspired in name and appearance by Rose Ann Scamardella, a news anchor at WABC-TV in New York City.

He claims in his autobiography that this was infantile humour that any self-respecting comedian would have dismissed and that he was particularly sensitive to hygiene issues and if there were anything he did smell of, it would have been Radox and Colgate.

Atherton claims in his autobiography that he answered ' no ' when asked if he had anything in his pockets.

Lanchester admitted in her autobiography that she had had two abortions in her youth ( one of whom was sired by Laughton ), but it is not clear if these left her incapable of becoming pregnant again.

" In his autobiography he stated that after sixty years he still thought about her, and that because of her death " if I saw the entire German nation sinking into the sea, I could be relied upon to help push it down.

Super Bowl XIII, the rematch, featured Cowboys Linebacker Thomas " Hollywood " Henderson saying famously " Terry Bradshaw couldn't spell c-a-t if you spotted him the C and the T ." Landry recalled in his autobiography how he cringed when he heard that, because he didn't feel that Bradshaw needed addition motivation in a big game like the Super Bowl.

( In his autobiography, Frazier said that he didn't fight in the war because he was a father but that he would have fought if drafted because his country had been so good to him.

As Paige himself noted in his autobiography, Maybe I'll Pitch Forever, " If Cool Papa had known about colleges or if colleges had known about Cool Papa, Jesse Owens would have looked like he was walking.

General Norman Schwarzkopf expressed the position over Israel more frankly in his 1992 autobiography: ' European Command also kept Israel, which from my viewpoint was a help: I'd have had difficulty impressing the Arabs with Central Command's grasp of geopolitical nuance if one of the stops on my itinerary had been Tel Aviv.

Bret Hart claims in his autobiography, Hitman, that he was actually asked if he wanted to be part of the group, as his relationship with Michaels was far less adversarial back then: " The thing I remember most about that tour was Shawn, Razor, and Nash talking to me in Hamburg about the idea of forming a clique of top guys who strictly took care of their own.

Van Buren wrote in his autobiography of Jackson ’ s toast, “ The veil was rent – the incantations of the night were exposed to the light of day .” Thomas Hart Benton, in his memoirs, stated that the toast “ electrified the country .” Jackson would have the final words a few days later when a visitor from South Carolina asked if Jackson had any message he wanted relayed to his friends back in the state.

" Slash states in his autobiography that it was hard to tell if Stradlin was serious or kidding.

In China Eggs, an unpublished autobiography that she wrote in 1955, Sage stated that “ these were the happiest days of my life ,”, and she told friend and gallery owner Julien Levy in 1961 that her campagna experience shaped her “ perspective idea of distance and going away .” Nonetheless, in later years Sage usually claimed that she was self-taught, perhaps because, as one of her biographers, Judith Suther, states, most of what she had learned in Rome bore so little relationship to the kind of painting she eventually did that “ she felt as if she had studied with no one .”

") Between 1950 and 1952, he variously worked as a door-to-door salesman for the Electrolux Vacuum cleaner company, as a Gunther Beer truck relief driver, where he achieved a certain fame for burning out three truck clutches in six weeks, and as a ticket agent for United Airlines, all before escaping into the United States Air Force, where he ultimately became head of the Policy Branch of the USAF Psychological Warfare Division, about which he would write in his humorous autobiography, Which Way to Mecca, Jack ?, that his " principal achievement " was in formulating the principle that " a 500-pound sack of propaganda leaflets, if dropped from an altitude of 13, 000 feet and provided it scored a direct hit, would drive one North Korean soldier approximately four feet into the ground.

His books include What If ( 2002 ), an alternate history in which the author speculates about how history would have been different if in 1890 events had taken a different path in the second rise of Israel on the way to becoming a nation state ; Fall of the Spanish Inquisition ( 2002 ), and Code Name: Amnon: The Life And Times Of A Haganah Fighter 1943-1949 ( 2003 ), an autobiography of the author's involvement with the Haganah since 1943 to 1949, during the dramatic and violent years leading up to the creation of the State of Israel.

In Hart's autobiography, he noted that prior to his first major singles push, Pat Patterson asked if he could do a " Scorpion Death Lock ", which he did not know at the time.

When John Michael Hayes, the screenwriter for the film adaptation, asked her if the novel was her autobiography, Metalious told him to repeat the question and then spilled her drink on him.

12 years later, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson revealed in his autobiography that he had made a bid for Beardsley, but McFaul had rejected the offer and told him that he wouldn't sell the player even if Ferguson offered £ 3 million.

However, if interpreted with caution the autobiography of Usāmah is a rich source on 12th century culture.