Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

I carry Yeats with me wherever I go. He's my constant companion. I always can find some comfort in Yeats no matter what the situation is. Months and months and months go by and I know I need to switch to Shelley or somebody else, but right now Yeats is enough for me.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

I think it would be irresponsible of the town not to explore it.

Coach McBride's wife . . . you don't see too many women, from another race, to be hugging a big, old black guy like me,

I've seen some of these children who are oblivious to their personal accomplishments