You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.

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.

But all was not sunshine and Marvin Gaye songs. [UCLA] also recruited black students as part of a High Potential Program that was meant to bring diversity to the campus. Two of the students that were part of that program were Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr., both members of the Black Panther Party's Southern California Chapter.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

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

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.