I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.