Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.

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.

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?