Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

You can't see the light without darkness, take a look at the dark side of another point of view, you will find the meaning of darkness are essentially

If music is food for the soul, lessons are food for knowledge what feeds the heart..... Love

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when I wasn't able to control it.

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.

There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.