I can't imagine that, for her, for her mother, who is with us, our children's godmother, who is with us, all of whom are direct descendants of slaves, that seeing that portal doesn...
You know, I haven't had a chance to process it yet. I think we were both listening and talking to the children but I -- ...
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 ...
I think the experience of slavery is -- is like the experience of the Holocaust. I think it's one of those things you do...
The capacity for cruelty still exists. The capacity for discrimination still exists.
I'm reminded of the same feeling I got when I went to Buchenwald with Elie Wiesel.
He pulled it off, putting the ball across the plate, as you see right there, a respectable showing for a guy who we know...
I think that there is a special sense for African Americans of somehow connecting up with a part of yourself that you mi...
You try to explain that people were willing to degrade others because they appeared differently.
I want my kids to think about, and I want every -- every child to think about.
In some ways African-Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience because they don't have a recent...