I would love to see us, as blacks, get to the place where we say, 'I'm not going to play race games with you. Here I am. This is who I am. Take it or leave it.'

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

My honest opinion is that blacks have to fight much harder for their individuality than whites do.

If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.

When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at Experiment House.

We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.

Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.

May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary.

Everything we do is based at adults.

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.

You just do as many shows as you can to hone what it is you're working on.

People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.