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

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.

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.

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.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

nothing is wrong and nothing is right in this world, it's all about the matter of justification only.

You don't have to understand me I am not a word in a dictionary just accept me the way I am.

It's not the having it's the getting.

I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.