The biggest compliment that I receive is when other black folks come up to me and say, 'You changed the way that I thought about Chris Darden.'

I can't wait to see little white kids dressing up as Black Panther.

As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, 'If I was a slave, I wouldn't have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.' And it's like, sure, it's a very easy thing to say.

I've had people come stand in front of the treadmill and wait for me to acknowledge their presence so they can speak.

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.

I didn't grow up feeling very handsome.