For maybe a month or two, we were getting calls from the school every day. He was getting in fights. He was just angry.

He wasn't like that before. He's just having a hard time dealing with it.

It's always about somebody killing somebody.

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

I'm truly blessed, ... I'm going to go to school, and I'm going to really dedicate myself.

In high school, I didn't do too much blocking. It's hard, taking on that inside shoulder from a linebacker. It's hard to take on a block when he hits you in the middle of your chest.