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

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said, "We are going to make America live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." They produced one of the world's great cultures; they produced individuals who were just as brilliant and made contributions to the world civilization. In fact, they produced a world-class civilization, the African American civilization, in music, in dance, in oratory, in religion, in writing.

I have no plans to slow down.