White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Cincinnati like so many other cities, we know that so many of our schools, when it comes to public schools, are still de facto segregated racially. It has to do with residential segregation. It has to do with James Crow, Jr., which is at work, de facto rather than legally so that some of the integration is taking place among more and more well-to-do.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.

When you think of 244 years of slavery and 81 years of that finally you are going to be allowed to be part of the pool from which people choose jobs. That's not a substantive kind of move, but it was very important.