Life is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.

Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

I don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown.

Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.