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- My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
- 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…
- In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to…
- My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.
- I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians.
- My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a…
- Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a…
- I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces…
- I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then…
- It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed…
- You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to...…
- You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit…
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