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

I feel blessed to be in the broadcast business for 20 years. I believe that when you're this blessed, you have an obligation to pay it forward. That's what life is all about ultimately.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

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.

I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

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