Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we preserve them through fiction, through film, through comic books, and every other form of media we can possibly utilize to perpetuate the story of the great African-American people.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a test tube and you find out all kind of things in six weeks - where they are from in Africa or Europe. You can prove or disprove the fundamental African-American myth that you descended from a Cherokee great, great grandmother.

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