Patriotism Is Best Exemplified Through Auto-critique.

I Believe In The Law. I Think We Have A Great System Of Justice. But I Do Think That System Of Justice Has Been Corrupted By Racism And Classism. I Think It's Difficult For 'poor People' - Poor White People, Brown People - To Be Treated Fairly Before The Law In The Same Way That Upper-class People Are.

Ending The Slave Trade Was Contrary To British Economic Interests. For All Its Limitations And Hypocrisies - British Slavery Itself, Of Course, Still Continued To Exist - I Still Think It Was A Great Moment In Human History.

I Think That Is What We Do By Preserving And Telling Our Stories. If You Don't Tell Your Stories, Other People Will Tell Their Story About You. It's Important That We Nurture And Protect These Memories. Things Change. Existence Means Change. So, The Kind Of Precious Memories About Being Black For My Generation Won't Exist For My Kids' And Grandkids' Generations Unless We Preserve Them Through Fiction, Through Film, Through Comic Books, And Every Other Form Of Media We Can Possibly Utilize To Perpetuate The Story Of The Great African-american People.

I Try To Be Sensitive, But The Atmosphere I Create Is Very Supportive. One Overriding Premise Of The Series Is That Guilt Is Not Heritable. It's Good To Know About Them, But You Are Not Responsible For Them. You Don't Have To Apologize For Them. It's A Process Of Knowing, And The More You Know, The Richer The Sense Of Yourself. The Firmer Your Foundation As A Human Being Is

Let's Face It - Think Of Africa, And The First Images That Come To Mind Are Of War, Poverty, Famine And Flies. How Many Of Us Really Know Anything At All About The Truly Great Ancient African Civilizations, Which In Their Day, Were Just As Splendid And Glorious As Any On The Face Of The Earth?