Nowadays, you suffer the same risks - ostracism, career loss, possible assault - for being perceived as racist that you would have encountered a century ago for daring to question racist ideology.

I don't regret any of my transgressions, because I believe I paid for them a million times over.

I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.

I'm arrogant enough to tell you that I'm smart enough to have scored higher on my Scholastic Aptitude Test than any US president whose SAT score has been made public. I even scored higher than ex-presidential candidate Al Gore, whose SAT score was so high, it was deemed as potentially off-putting to voters.

It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days; a hundred years ago, it was.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.