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The Thing About Black History Is That The Truth Is So Much More Complex Than Anything You Could Make Up.

My Producers And I Worked With These Consultants And Came Up With Seventy [stories] Which We Think Are Exemplary Of The Larger Arc Of African-american History Between 1513 And 2013. We Covered Half A Millennium, And It's Amazing.

I Want To Be Remembered As Someone Who Tried To Bring The Story Of Our Ancestors To The Broadest Possible Audience. I Want To Be Remembered As A Man Who Loved His Race.

You Had One Guy Who Was A Slave, And Another Who Wasn't. And I Actually Know What Happened To Them. [juan ] Garrido Ended Up Getting Good Jobs And A Pension In Mexico Which Was The Center Of New Spain, As It Was Called. Esteban Ended Up Being Killed By The Zuni Indians.

We Must Begin To Understand The Nature Of Intertextuality . . . The Manner By Which Texts Poems And Novels Respond To Other Texts. After All, All Cats May Be Black At Night, But Not To Other Cats.