We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life

I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.