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.

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.

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.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.

I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies.

Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.

The military has a very prickly relationship with the press.