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We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

I grew up in an all-white community.

I want the white people to understand my people.

I like doing business in a black city.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.