A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

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.

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.

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over

The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities.

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

We want products made in America, made by American hands. You probably saw the Keystone pipeline I approved recently.

We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

The simple fact is, offense is taken, not given.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

Every man is his own greatest dupe.