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.

I can't pretend that I did one really awful thing - I took a bite out of the apple but now I'm never going to sin again.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

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

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We're dreamers and - since we only have one life, and if we screw up we can get in a world of trouble - we're very intense dreamers. 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 is no American or Frenchhistory. 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.

I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.

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.