If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has already passed the resolution for the apology, but it has to pass the Senate. I think, in spite of all our problems, I think we're in the right direction.

Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.

I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.