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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.

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

When I got into Stanford in high school, I had some friends from school who told me that I just got in because I was black and whatnot.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

I can't talk about the education of black children if I ignored two of my nieces who were a couple of grade levels behind. I believe that charity begins at home, and I take seriously the role of a godfather to fill the gap when the parents aren't doing their job.

Students of color who attended integrated schools in the decades immediately following Brown were more likely to graduate high school, go to college, earn higher wages, live healthier lifestyles, and not have a criminal record than their peers in segregated schools.