Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.

The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, are by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

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