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Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.
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These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
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See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
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For some reason, we're brainwashed to think if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don't break the law, you're not a good black person.
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One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.
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People like you as long as you agree with them. But that doesn't bother me.
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Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.
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One of my biggest regrets ever was not taking the time to go to South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela. That is a big regret of mine. I should have figured out a way.
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Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.
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I've always said that: 'We as black people, if you want respect, you have to give each other respect.' You can't demand respect from white people and the cops if we don't respect each other.
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Neither one of the parties is doing anything for poor people. They're both full of it. Black people have been voting Democratic their whole life, and they're still poor. And the Republicans don't do anything for poor people, either.
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LeBron is a great player and a great guy, but he's a drama queen.
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The NBA man, we have always been progressive.
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Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.
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What we, as black people, need to do is we need to worry about our education.
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I am a big pro-choice guy.
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My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.
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I think it's a travesty that the NBA can't just tell these guys to play basketball two days in a row. It's just a joke to me. We flew commercial, and we were able to play back-to-back.
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I do not use words like 'liberal' or 'conservative.' You can ask me a question, and I will give you an answer. Those are words rich people on television use to divide and conquer.
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If you get a chance to play with great players, that's half the battle.
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'War Eagle' is like 'I love you.'
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If you are black on television, you are probably going to be some kind of thug, gangster, or portrayed in a negative light. If you are some type of Muslim, you are going to be blowing stuff up. If you are Hispanic, you are going to be some type of gangbanger. I've felt like this for years.
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I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.
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When I get on TV, I'm going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I'm going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I'm very aware of all the social stuff going on.