What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.