If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.

More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.

I was latching on to something that was part of my heritage, because many of the slaves who were brought here were Moslems.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

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.

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.

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.