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.

After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.

The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.

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

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.