I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.

Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

My high school had been a renovated old hospital, so when I first came to the UCLA campus in the spring of 1965, I was immediately impressed by the classic northern Italian architecture that was mixed with futuristic ultra-modern buildings. The classic architecture gave it the heft of old wisdom while the modernistic look inspired hope for the future.