I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

My grandma always said bad things don't last forever.

We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.

You've got to play with pride and guts.

Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to.

If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

By now he had learned. Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

Be calm, be brave, it'll be okay.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.

The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?