"The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment."

"Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique."

"My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced."

"No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands."

"Wisdom principle 52 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 2."

"Wisdom principle 72 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 77."

"Wisdom principle 61 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 19."

"Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful."