I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

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.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

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

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.