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I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.

Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that gives us a sense of comfort, a false one. Many of us thought - needed to feel - the whole business was 'settled.' But it's not, never has been. Laws have only taken us so far.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

In North America, what happens often is that they put race before nationhood. Everyone here is Hispanic-American, Chinese-American, African-American. But really, we're just North Americans of all these different descents. The only time I notice North Americans becoming national is when a war happens or a crisis happens.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

Race is something that's always haunted American policing.

We need to have a discussion on race, but we also need to have a discussion on how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.

I never though much about race.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.

American law enforcement officers understand that race is and has been a heated issue in our country. Most appreciate the vital need for thoroughness and transparency in pursuit of the greater good in their actions and in their investigations.