I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.

When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?