Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice?

Racism is within each and every one of us.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.