In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world.

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.

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.

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

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.