I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.

The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.

[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me that I've never forgotten. He used his extensive knowledge of art history to illustrate the development of Western culture and politics.

I'm not going to disappear.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

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