I love the fight. I don't - it's not a negative, it's a positive, and I love the challenge. There's that little part of me that I love proving someone wrong in that way when they have an image of me or something, or they think they have me figured out or they think I'm a certain way.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

I think, for most of us is that once you get to a certain place in your career you're not having to elbow and knock people around and audition for parts.

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

We think of - there are too many wars, of course, in the world as we speak, but my read on this suggests to me that water is going to be the resource into the future that we're really - that countries, nations, are going to be fighting for control over.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.