Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

Flesh, blood, bone--the body is only a container for who we truly are inside.

Be in the Now Moment—don’t squander your energy on a past you can’t change or a future which has not yet happened.

As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through.

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.