I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
Start where you are, use what you have.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
