The older we get the less afraid we are.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.