What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
Islam is about finding your own space.
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
If there is moral insanity," he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, immoral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like a fever.
Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.