I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it....[I]f followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.

Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.