We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American communi….

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great rep….

I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I didn't do any White people. I was shocked, beca….

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the s….

One must learn how to be black in America..

Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said, "We are g….

You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only….

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I….

Brazil is the second blackest nation in the world..

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President..

I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man ….

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on t….

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president….

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker..

Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer..

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time..