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.

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

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

I suppose I knew I was gay at age 11 or so.

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

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.