The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

For example I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University though it was covering more than three years of work and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.