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I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.

I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.

My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.