I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case.

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority.

With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.

Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah.

I hope we have American-topias.

When you’re called to Revival & Awakening you walk closer to God and most people won't understand your calling so save your breathe you don’t have to explain yourself

If you woke up this morning in good health, then you have a great reason to be very grateful and thankful. Life is always better when you celebrate every moment of it with the spirit of gratitude.

My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.

If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val