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In athletics there’s always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you’re not cheating. I think that’s just a quirk of human nature.
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents’ garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they’re also practicing math.
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
I didn’t really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
Black people don’t have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There’s so much more to the story.