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" I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted. "

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" Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it. "

" There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that Hispanic people have that are similar! "

" I believe in diversity in front of and behind the camera. "

" When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit. "

" I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard. "

" People all the time say to me, 'You look just like Don Lemon,' and I would go, 'I hear that all the time! 'And after a moment, I would go, 'I am Don Lemon!' "

" You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me. "

" I'm not concerned with what people think of me. "

" We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner. "

" I think if I had seen more people like me who are out and proud, it wouldn't have taken me 45 years to say it - to walk in the truth. "

" I am a big devourer of James Baldwin. "

" You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices. "

" Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric. "

" I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you. "

" The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end. "

" In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about. "

" When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features. "

" African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country. "

" Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix. "

" Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first. "

" I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that. "

" Whatever happens with my career, I'm going to prosper no matter what. "

" Some people are saying, 'Justin Bieber is racist.' Is he? I don't know. "

" I'm a citizen of the world. "

" I don't watch the media that much. "

" Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us. "

" I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school. "

" When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator. "

" I don't consider myself a celebrity. I'm just a journalist. "