I Want To Get Into

I Want To Be A Figure For Prison Reform. I Think That The Criminal Justice System Is Rotten.

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.

I Rebel At The Notion That I Can't Be Part Of Other Groups, That I Can't Construct Identities Through Elective Affinity, That Race Must Be The Most Important Thing About Me. Is That What I Want On My Gravestone: Here Lies An African American?

I Want To Get Into The Educational Dna Of American Culture. I Want 10 Percent Of The Common Culture, More Or Less, To Be Black.

My Producers And I Worked With These Consultants And Came Up With Seventy [stories] Which We Think Are Exemplary Of The Larger Arc Of African-american History Between 1513 And 2013. We Covered Half A Millennium, And It's Amazing.