My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.
Kobe BryantThat argument doesnโt make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far weโve progressed as a society? Well, if weโve progressed as a society, then you donโt jump to somebodyโs defense just because theyโre African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I wonโt assert myself.
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