If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.