It was a terrible thing, ... The bottom line is that I was involved with a young woman and it went sour, and some allegations which were not true about me assaulting her were made.

I was once considered one of the pre-eminent black conservatives in the past, but now I'm more of a black progressive and I'm in the right place,

What I was wrong about was not realizing that in my saying those things in the way I said them had political consequences, ... It wasn't just a matter about being right. Being right about something isn't good enough. You also have to be smart about it.

I got my life back together and I haven't looked back,

The graduate course will be going through the theories of inequality, inequalities of all kinds - why some countries are slower to grow than others, why some regions within countries are left behind, why some groups, whether racial, ethnic or whatever (are left behind),

This is a very exciting place, ... The potential to do something here seemed to be really quite great and I was persuaded after talking with the leadership at the University ... that the kind of thing that I wanted to do on race and inequality would be perfect here. It just seemed too good of an opportunity to pass up.