A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart and burp as well.