I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

My father was a doctor.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.