“I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.”

You’ve got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.

Lakers just been taking care of business for a long time now. It’s easy to love them.

It’s intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy.

My great grandma, she’s in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she’s seen. I learn a lot from her.

You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It’s just a matter of always learning.

Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it’s just nuts.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.

I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

It’s been agony but I couldn’t have done it any other way.

If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.

I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.

There’s one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.