Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.

UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.