I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.