Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

I'm against abortion.

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

This is a racist country.

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.

i like james patterson

The gospel is a declaration, not a debate.

So you don't have time for concealer, you have time for powder for when you start crying later about how some boy doesn't like you.

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.

I don't feel there's any kind of pain in my life.