You cannot fix what you will not face.

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life -- without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.