That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

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

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.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

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

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.