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

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.

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.

The passion for self improvement is the love for reading, learning and writing.

I wish to be a product not a consumer.

Maybe I'll understand today when tomorrow comes.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

There is no patch for stupidity.

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

Living your purpose will require a HUGE amount of faith, courage, tenacity and perseverance.

The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.