My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians.

We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.