Sometimes I have days where I can't sit in class, 'cause I don't know everybody in the class. I need to know them all in order to know I can be there.

Anytime there's a celebration, the fireworks and things like that. The first New Year's I was back, I slept in my closet. So that would pretty much be the low end of things.

I feel like I could die tomorrow of some random accident, and have experienced what most people would consider an entire lifetime.

It's not cool because you have to run to class.

There is no other way that this senior class wanted to go out. It really hasn't hit me yet. When we won our first title three years ago, it was exciting and we never knew it was going to turn into this. Words can't really describe how I or my teammates feel right now.

There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leadership. A more diversified black community doesn't find it necessary to have one voice.