Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.

No one has earned the right to do less than their best.

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.