Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.
A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.
American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.
We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do.