If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

My honest opinion is that blacks have to fight much harder for their individuality than whites do.

I would love to see us, as blacks, get to the place where we say, 'I'm not going to play race games with you. Here I am. This is who I am. Take it or leave it.'

The prison that exists in a man's mind is far more difficult to escape from than anything built with brick walls and steel doors. For it is the fear of freedom that holds you inside...

Wine is to women as duct tape is to men - it fixes everything

When our eyes made contact it was like being slapped, I just wanted to recoil

There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it.

Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.