People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin… Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, you’re not supposed to be there because … of the color of your skin.”

It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

There are a lot of positives. We can't get bent out of shape and hold our heads down just because it didn't go our way. We're going to be characterized by how we stick together.

Suffering has been greater than all other teachings. I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.