I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

In your trembling touch of love, I lost my past, present, and future.

We think a lot of things but can not take the right steps at the right time. And this is why the next time we're gonna regret.

As Christmas draws near, let the words resonate — not just within your heart & mind, but Soul.

Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

Action is your power pusher to new behaviors that open your heart to freedom.

Taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.