“I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.”

There’s more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look.

Everybody’s talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I don’t feel anything when I watch Shaquille O’Neal play. I don’t feel anything coming off him.

I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, ‘Kim,’ to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.

Create havoc, create destruction.

I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

If I don’t finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something’s seriously wrong.

If you have a problem with my answer that’s your problem, not my problem.

Don’t let what other people think decide who you are.

The Bulls talked to just about every person who ever met me.

It’s just like we do over here in America, right? It’s amazing that we have presidents over here do the same thing, right?

Sometimes I’m not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I’m always looking to do more.

You can love me or you can hate me.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

Rose Park is a community I’m very proud to be from.

I knew when I got on tour that if I had the opportunity to give back to my community, which is Rose Park, I would.

The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.

The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

I believe the gay community is a good group of people but with groups like NAMBLA [a pedophile group] riding on their coattails.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.