In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to be that smart and if you... as a boy you're not even supposed to like school. All of the sudden you've got kids who are afraid, black kids and Latino kids who are afraid to be great, afraid to bask in the enjoyment of education, lest they be labeled less than black, less than Latino, less they be called the oreo.

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

I would just never want to have someone come out for the greater good who was a celebrity and then find them slipping into like Lohanville with alcohol or drugs or something else just because they couldn't cope.

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

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

In the NBA you need a little bit more than that when Jordan is front of you. You need a little bit more than that when it is Barkley or Karl Malone or Shaq or whoever else. You need a lot more than that frankly if you're the English kid who can't jump.