I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

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

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

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

We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.