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Skateboarding Is Not A Hobby. And It Is Not A Sport. Skateboarding Is A Way Of Learning How To Redefine The World Around You. For Most People, When They Saw A Swimming Pool, They Thought, ‘let's Take A Swim.' But I Thought, ‘let's Ride It.' When They Saw The Curb Or A Street, They Would Think About Driving On It. I Would Think About The Texture. I Slowly Developed The Ability To Look At The World Through Totally Different Means.

It Makes Me Sad, The Way Human Beings Talk Smack. It's Why I Don't Like Irony. People Are Too Gleeful To Put Some Teeth Into Something.

Columbia Heights Was A Poor, Messed Up Area, And The Church Was In The Middle Of It. What Happened Inside Was A Reflection Of The Community. I Actually Saw My First Rock Concert On The Altar Of That Church [st. Stephen's].

As Hard As You Try And Create Narratives About Sports, Once The Ball Is In The Air, There's Not A Damn Thing You Can Do About It, It's Just Very Real.

Structures Can Be Manipulated For Ill As Well, Especially When People Are Dealing With Issues Of Power, Or Control, Or Violence.