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When I got out of the military, I finished up my education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I had some mentors who said, 'You got what it takes. You should consider going to graduate school, getting a Ph.D. in neuroscience.' I didn't think I had what it took until somebody who had a Ph.D. told me I had what it takes.

Number one in high school, when I was sort of entrenched in the street life, if you will, the major thing that kept me plugged in the mainstream was athletics. I played basketball throughout high school. I also played football, but I played basketball throughout high school.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.

I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.

When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

Trump has been - has shown himself to be the most ignorant president that we've ever had. He has shown himself to be the one that disregards law more so than any other president we've had.

If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.

You don't have money, you can't do science. But that's part of the price that I pay.

All children will do things that you may not want them to. That's part of parenting.

If politicians did care about their constituents, they would work harder to seek out people like me. They don't.

I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.

Teaching university students affords me the opportunity to demonstrate to young adults that they don't have to be perfect to make contributions to their country.

I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.

Researchers, treatment providers - we all have a stake in the drug hysteria game.

You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.

I think people are curious at some level, and they want to alter their current state of being. I mean, that could be from curiosity, that could be from stress, that can be from some other sort of ailments or problem that they are experiencing or could just be from boredom, but humans have always attempted to alter their consciousness.

My kids are really into social justice.

One of the things we know about people is that people are not very courageous in general.

The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive and potentially dangerous.