Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.