I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for your wallet, likely to have a minus 15 on my IQ, likely to not go to college and likely to wear my pants below my arse.

I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don't want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.

I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.

I thought kissing was good with girls, but I always thought you know it probably could be better, so there was nothing really.

My particular interest area is working in issues of emotional literacy. What I see of the way that we educate boys and more than that, the way we socialize boys within their families and then in schools to me is tantamount to just removing any element of emotional intelligence from them.

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.