As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.

The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

I'm a big fan of technology; I've been a geek since 1986... and I was spending all my paper money on gadgets.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Of course it's normal for people to say, 'Yeah, this player changed teams because of the money.' That could be the case sometimes, but after a certain level of success? No.

I strongly believe in a free market, and it is great when companies make money and pay their people well.