In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

We have chaos reigning in the Middle East. There is a great deal of instability. In the past, people would have turned to their church, and some still do. Counterintuitively, people are now turning into themselves to find their roots. The way you do that is through your family tree. "Where did I come from?" There is an urge to preserve the names of the people who produced you.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.