I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.