When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.

Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

'Traveling While Black' is about empathy, what African Americans experience in traveling throughout America, and how it hasn't changed that much from the past. If it can be experienced in virtual reality, then perhaps some empathy can be gained.

Racism is a global problem and it is as damaging to Whites as it is to non-Whites. Everyone must fight against it.

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.