“I really feel like this is such an important story of racial healing in America, ... Somebody thought they had to leave their family to make this marriage work, and then to be fully received -- it was just a miracle, really.”
“You know, it was an amazing thing from my own perspective, ... I appear white. When you had mixed-race children in those days, you took your black father's identity. So it was a little strange to be sitting there with this white couple and they were my aunt and uncle.”