I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.

John Carlos provided the world with one of the most iconic images of the 1960s with his Black Power salute after a medal-winning performance at the 1968 summer games.

He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.

We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

Why don't we scale up those things that do work.