In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were murdered on campus by a rival black nationalist group, the United Slaves Organization. This shook up all the students, black and white, and made us all realize that what we were doing wasn't just an academic exercise, but had repercussions in the real world.

The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.

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

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

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

I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.