In America One Drop Of Black Ancestry

My Producers And I Worked With These Consultants And Came Up With Seventy [stories] Which We Think Are Exemplary Of The Larger Arc Of African-american History Between 1513 And 2013. We Covered Half A Millennium, And It's Amazing.

People Who Own Property Feel A Sense Of Ownership In Their Future And Their Society. They Study, Save, Work, Strive And Vote. And People Trapped In A Culture Of Tenancy Do Not.

I Want To Be A Figure For Prison Reform. I Think That The Criminal Justice System Is Rotten.

The Only People Who Live In A Post-black World Are Four People Who Live In A Little White House On Pennsylvania Avenue. The Idea That America Is Post-racial Or Post-black Because A Man I Admire, Barack Obama, Is President Of The United States, Is A Joke. And I Hope No One Will Even Wonder About This Crazy Fiction Again.

Everything My Mother And Father Did Was Designed To Put Me Where I Am.