The facilities are magnificent, the campus is beautiful - I even like living four days a week in Providence, which I never thought I was going to do,

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,

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.

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),