Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution, " the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Character is greatness inside out.

If you want to keep your dignity intact, stay away from tequila.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

& he ill, he real, he might gotta deal He pop bottles & he got the right kinda bill

I can't remember ever having a tragic demeanor. Although my life was tragedy.

Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.