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

I travel a lot. It used to be, when I would go to any country, I could guarantee that the first question would establish my name, and the fact that I've written Roots, and the third question, at least no later than the fourth question would not be a question, so much as a statement, something like, "We understand that in America white people do such and such bad things to black people."

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.