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I know I've had a charmed experience of being a parent, with healthy kids, a helpful partner, access to good day care, and great public schools.

Kids are the ultimate trump card: a way to get out of co-op board meetings or lunch with a friend you don't want to see or your brother-in-law's set at a comedy club. It's fair to use your kids as an excuse to sidestep what you don't want to do; it's less fair to blame them for not being able to achieve what you do want to do.

Because the designers at Baby Gap and Crew Cuts have determined it would be cute if kids dressed like their dads, seemingly every American male between 2 and 52 dresses identically.

If you've ever watched a television cartoon, you know that kids don't appreciate subtlety, though perhaps that's because they're not often offered it.

I was bullied a lot... doing anything overly well was punished by the kids.

Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

If kids have the oportunity to come together to get to know one another, they can judge for themselves who they want their friends to be. All children should have that choice. We, as adults, shouldn't make those choices for children. That's how racism starts.

I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.

That's really what my work is all about - bringing kids together.

Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.

If we're gonna get past our our racial differences, it's gonna come from our kids, but they have to be together to do that.

Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to us what we looked like.

Every day, I would show up, and there were no kids, just me and my teacher in my classroom. Every day, I would be escorted by marshals past a mob of people protesting and boycotting the school. This went on for a whole year.

I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.

None of our kids come into the world knowing anything about disliking one another.

Kids really don't care about what their friends look like.

Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.

This is basketball. It's All-Star and all that stuff. That's not what it's really about. It's about making a difference and impacting the kids and helping people in need. That's what it's about.

Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don't have a family. A lot of them got one parent and there's quite a few that don't have any parents and that's where the whole problem is. There's no family life, no father to slap 'em around when they need it.

I got to host a radio show. I got a clothing range. I was the face of fashion week. I got to do a whole television show with kids.