Well I was eight years old and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting commercials and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it and for the acting part of it she made me study for a year.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and...
Well certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is...
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They...
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at...
But you see our society is still trapped in this binary black/white logic...
I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately...
My mom God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me...
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we...
The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a...
Wherever you go in the history of America there have been Black people...
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are...
Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin with...
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
The sight of nature fascinates the family tie has a sweet enchantment and...
Unfortunately our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to...
America's state religion is patriotism a phenomenon which has convinced...
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
When a dog barks at the moon then it is religion but when he barks at...
I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.