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

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.

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.

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.'

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

You are never left out from having the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you are at. It's always up to you.

Prayer's value is not that it makes challenges go away, but that it changes my perception and experience within them.~ Life at First Sight: Finding the Divine in the Details

Hope is the faith of miracles.

All experiences exist in one time frame.

You know, people have tried to make out there is a split between environmentalism and labor over the years. And if that was ever true, it becomes less so all the time.

The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of the screenplay.

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

Dreams always end before you kill the last person.

I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.