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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.

The fact that our country, the greatest country in the world, remains mired in race relations issues in the year 2014 is an embarrassment.

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.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat.

Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together.

Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

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.

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.