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I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.

In the mainstream, I'm suspect because I'm black. I have dreadlocks, I have a goatee. I mean, I'm just suspect. In my classroom and at Columbia, I'm not as suspect because it's clear I know what I'm doing, but I am still suspect.

Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.

If drugs are bad, any respectable society should do something to deal with them.

I am a drug expert and the father of 3 black males.

When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.

I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of the few black researchers.

It takes some courage to say you were wrong.

I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.

It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.

It's not a crime to make a mistake; in fact, it's human. I certainly have made mistakes.

It is always a good time when I visit the 'Melissa Harris Perry Show' on MSNBC.

Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.

I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.

In the hood, you have a problem with somebody, you have to deal with it. The outcome is pretty immediate.

The listening community has the obligation of distinguishing informed opinion from tweets.

If you are funding researchers to look primarily for pathology, not surprisingly, that is what they are going to find and report on.

Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.

When patients reject official advice and proved medicine, they become more susceptible to quackery.

Skills that are employable or marketable, education, having a stake or meaningful role in society, not being marginalized - all of those things are very important.