There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.

People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case.

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority.

With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.

Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah.

I hope we have American-topias.

I remembered reading somewhere that if you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile.

I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.

I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

You don't want to get into doing the same thing, over and over again. I know I don't.