Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

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.

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

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.

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

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.