Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

The church and all Christians need to pray, but without playing an active part, it is impossible to impact the country

Boredom doesn't exist where creativity lives.

Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it.

I wait all year for the colder seasons, just so that when I wear my Hogwarts scarf it's functional as well as fashionable.

For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.

I just sit ther and do what I vowed I would never do - talk back to the television.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

The corruption of the best is the worst.

Fang can't stand to see trash & garbage lying around the house. He can't stand the competition.