One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.