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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

A lot of people don't know that my father is black.

People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

I do consider myself part of black history.

I want to see as many black professionals as possible.