In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

I've just come to realize I'm going to share my point of view. Some people won't like me for it. Some people will. I will work every day to be as honest as I can because I do believe that we're all trying to get to the same place. But various people have tricked us into believing that we are not. And I see America going into that space.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

[My mother ] will write me an email, and it'll be Shanah Tovah. And the next day it'll be something else, Baruch Hashem Adonai. And I - I'm lost half of the time, but that was the world that I grew up in.

There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

Families were living separately from the fathers. And so although, according to African culture, men were the head of the household, the truth is women were the ones who were raising everybody, including men. And growing up with my mother, that was something I really learned to appreciate.