If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

Any professional athlete who gets on TV or radio and says he never played with a gay guy is a stone-freakin' idiot.

I really like ESPN. They do a great job.

The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor white folks, and Hispanics not like each other.

If you're different in any way at school,then you're going to get a bit of abuse. You learn to deal with it in a way where people don't come back at you again.

The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.