In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

I went to high school in Stockton, CA.

I don't read them. I haven't read them since high school. If you got in trouble or weren't doing well in class, they'd make a big deal about it and say you couldn't play in college. I felt bad. It's not everyone's business. How can people say that when they don't know the whole story?