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

I'm praying for Barack Obama to stay on the tightrope because I want to fight his right-wing critics. I want to down I want to ensure they don't lie about him. I'm sure they don't demonize him, and too much of that is going on. So I don't want my critiques to be in any way confused with the right-wing critiques, even though I'll fight for the right wing to be wrong in that regard.

When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow as well as white, we need to push toward integrated schools.

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.

Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.