I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.

The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.