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

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.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.