When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.
We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.
More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.
You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed.
I worked when I was Congress on a second chance act. We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting the errors in the system that do reflect on institutional bias in criminal justice. But what - what - what Donald Trump and I are saying is let's not have the reflex of assuming the worst of men and women in law enforcement. We truly do believe that law enforcement is not a force for racism or division in our country.
I don't believe in predestined fate. The future is what we choose to create.
Do people think I'm cool because I was in a movie when I was a child? No. Well, maybe a little bit more than they used to. There's definitely a nostalgia factor.
Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.