I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.

You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't water, nineteen will die and one will survive.

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.