I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

Yoga is just good for you.

I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.