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.

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.

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.'

If you believe, you can achieve the set-goal.

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

The more I take care of myself, the more prosperous I am.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

The birthday of a new world is at hand.

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.