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- America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live…
- It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.
- My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he…
- 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…
- The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
- 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…
- First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that…
- I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?
- I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was…
- I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be…
- I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces…
- We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in…
- 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…
- All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry…
- Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even…
- So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars…
- 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…
- There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans…
- You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a…
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