In English we were reading the book 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and the people of African-American descent, there were only two of us in the class.

People who don't know what it's like to be an African American don't understand that it's OK, ... I never want to be other than an African American.

As an African-American, you think of slavery as being associated with (our people). But here you realize it's everyone. Everyone could be slaves.

The Achievement Scholarship Award was originally founded during the 1960s Civil Rights Act and is specifically for African-American high school students. It's a much smaller program but operates in a very parallel way.

Women's teams have traditionally performed at levels a bit higher than men's teams academically, so that's not surprising. African-American student-athletes (male and female) are doing better academically than in the past.

I'm shocked that he would have the nerve to show his face in front of any African-American organization after the way they treated those people in New Orleans,