There are people in your classes who are capable of that kind of thing? I don't know if this school is ready to deal with the racial issues.

I'm going out into the work force. What is my Duke degree going to look like now? ... People already have ideas of what Duke students are like. It's just adding to the stereotype.

The fact that a woman was allegedly sexually assaulted is scary enough, but there's a racial element and a class element, that makes me real uncomfortable.

In middle school, all I was able to do was just run up and down the floor. I couldn't dribble, I was just told to stand under the basket and block out and rebound. Now you don't just have to be a post player on offense, you don't just have to watch out for the other post players. You can do a lot more stuff.

Basketball is what I grew up with. I didn't know volleyball until junior high school.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.