I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.

[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.

I was lucky to come along for the ride. [My mother] really is an amazing woman. And the world we lived in in South Africa at the time was a very matriarchal society because so many black men had been removed from the home.

I knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know - David Hasselhoff was a Dutch character in my world.

Those were the places where many people mixed if they wanted to mix, which was against the law [Immorality Act of 1927]. My mother was part of that group. My father was part of that group. People who were black and whites and Indian and Asian - and you came together and said, we choose to mix at the risk of being arrested. And so they did.

Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.

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