The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.

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

I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.

With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.