“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,”

“Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.”