There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

I had to get a second passport in a hurry.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.