If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,
I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

