Marian Wright Edelman

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Service is what life is all about.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.