I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.

There are some people who make a big distinction between n - a, which they say is OK, and n - - . Now, in my view, it's important to know about that distinction, because some people put a lot of weight on it. I don't.

The infamy of n - - is - it's a word that has been used to terrorize people, to put people down. But it has also been used in other ways. It's also been used as a way of putting a mirror up to racism.

The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.