Randall Kennedy

Let's not give a trophy to the person who wins the race because to give a trophy to the person who wins the race will make the person who they defeated feel bad.

No, no, no.

No, I don't want that.

I want to give a trophy to the person who wins the race because I think it's a good thing to valorize the best.

I've been just such a lucky person.

I mean, I feel like I've just lived an absolutely charmed life.

And I live, I mean, the work that I do is what I love doing.

I would pay to do what I am paid to do.

It's great.

I've been fortunate in so many ways.

And one way in which I've been fortunate is my parents.

My parents, Rachel Spann Kennedy, Henry Harold Kennedy, my mother born in Columbia, South Carolina, my father from New Orleans, Louisiana.

They were refugees from the Jim Crow South.

They were people who put their all into their children.

I have an older brother, I have a younger sister.

All three of us know beyond any controversy that we were loved and dearly loved by our parents.

And they were great people.

My father, very interesting man, very independent-minded.

He was perfectly willing to go his own way.

And I learned much from him, including, I learned things from him even when I ultimately disagreed with him.