There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

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

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements.

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.

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.