Brock does so many things well on and off the court. In practices he teaches, he communicates and he inspires the other kids. He's going to be a great coach someday.

One reason we've been in a lot of close games is that we've had a problem coming out early in games and jumping on people. People come out and jump on us more than we jump on them.

When black blood was money, the savvy businessman knew to open the vein.

High-minded idiocy pitted against the power of coin.

The words from across the ocean were beaten out of them over time. For simplicity, to erase their identities, to smother uprisings.

How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.