I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

I am a family man who has children, who is a good person, who cares about women's rights and my kids' rights and education, and I'm not a leftist elitist. I live a very normal life.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.