I Think Literacy Is Everything.

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.'

The Most Ironic Outcome Of The Black Civil Rights Movement Has Been The Creation Of A New Black Middle Class Which Is Increasingly Separate From The Black Underclass.

Let's Face It - Think Of Africa, And The First Images That Come To Mind Are Of War, Poverty, Famine And Flies. How Many Of Us Really Know Anything At All About The Truly Great Ancient African Civilizations, Which In Their Day, Were Just As Splendid And Glorious As Any On The Face Of The Earth?

I Think That Is What We Do By Preserving And Telling Our Stories. If You Don't Tell Your Stories, Other People Will Tell Their Story About You. It's Important That We Nurture And Protect These Memories. Things Change. Existence Means Change. So, The Kind Of Precious Memories About Being Black For My Generation Won't Exist For My Kids' And Grandkids' Generations Unless We Preserve Them Through Fiction, Through Film, Through Comic Books, And Every Other Form Of Media We Can Possibly Utilize To Perpetuate The Story Of The Great African-american People.

The African American's Relationship To Africa Has Long Been Ambivalent, At Least Since The Early Nineteenth Century, When 3,000 Black Men Crowded Into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church In Philadelphia To Protest Noisily A Plan To Recolonize Free Blacks In Africa.