Things happen and it just wasn't going the way I had planned it to go.

He talked to me and told me that everything was going to be all right. He told me to just keep working hard.

The community meant so much to us, and Dunbar meant so much to the community, that that was the most fun I had playing basketball.

Kids on teams would say names, and we would always point at the scoreboard.

I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.

We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions.