I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.