My Parents Met In Kenya.

I Think It's Crucially Important To Be Present In The Lives Of Your Children. They Are My Most Important Cause That I Fight For. But I Also Feel An Added Responsibility That I Want To Leave Them A Better World Than This One That We Have Now.

The Real Estate Agent Had To Go Door-to-door In The Apartment Building We Wanted To Rent, Asking If It Was Ok For This Interracial Family - My Mom Is White And I Was A 1-year-old Half-african Kid - To Live In The Apartment Building.

I Have Another Name For What They're Terming Whistleblowers, And That's Righteous Heroes. From Bradley Manning To Snowden. They're People Of Conscience Who Are Unwilling To Turn A Blind Eye To The Crimes Of Our Government. And Thank Goodness For Them.

I Didn't Abandon My Studies. Because I Was, Through No - Clarify This. Through No Particular Genius Of My Own, I Was The First Person From Libertyville Public High School To Attend Harvard, Not Because I Was Smarter Than Anyone Or Better Than Anyone, But No One Had Ever Applied Before. It Was Like University Of Illinois, A Fine Institution, Was The Sort Of The Upper Echelon Of Places Where Kids Went From That School. And So I Felt Sort Of A Duty To Myself And My Peers To Continue With Those Studies, And To Continue To, Intellectually Arm Myself For My Coming Struggles.

Things Like Rebellion And Resistance To Authority Are Absolutely As Much A Part Of The Human Experience As Love And Cars Are, And It's A Part That Doesn't Get Covered Very Much In Pop Music.