Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

I get off on anticipating and waiting much more than I get off on the actual event.

I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

There is no American history. There is no French history. There is no John Wideman. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.