"I am here. Anything more than that is rumor and slander"

"Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be."

"No one has arrived. Leave me there as you would leave a myth with any person who sees you until he cries and rushes into himself, afraid of happiness."

"I prepare my portrait for my woman to hang on a wall when I die. she says: Is there a wall to hang it on? I say: We'll build a room for it. Where? In any house."

"She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it."

"Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?"

"I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in."

"Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third."

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.

The only tyrant I accept is the still, small voice within me.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.

To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

I got blessed from my mom. She's the personality; she's the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

My family is a praying family, a Christian family.

My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.

The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.