I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

The journey has been incredible from its beginning.

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.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

The older we get the less afraid we are.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.