In some ways, African-Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience because they don't have a recent immigrant experience to draw on.
The capacity for cruelty still exists, the capacity for discrimination still exists, the capacity to think about people ...
You look at the extraordinary gap in per capita income that exists now, what that tells me is that there were a lot of o...
After all, I have the blood of Africa within me, and my family's own story encompasses both the tragedies and triumphs o...
What a profound sorrow must have been felt as people were hauled off into the great unknown.
I think it's a major problem. If you look at the history of the last several decades, I think what's fair to say is that...
You know, when I think about these development issues, they're not abstractions to me. I can put a face and a name to wh...
I do think there's a sense for a lot of African-Americans that it's a -- it's a profound, life-changing experience.
We can't afford another 40 or 50 years in which Africa loses those opportunities.
But I do think that you know, the spirit, particularly of a place like Ghana where you know, for all the difficulties th...
I think the way it has to be thought about, the reason it's relevant is because whether it's what's happening in Darfur ...