If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.
You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?
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 private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].
The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn’t poor.
