If you're getting harassed, it's not helpful to know that racism has generally declined in America, when you're still experiencing it. That is a reality that we're still vulnerable to.

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

I know that whatever power Shelby Steele has always comes out of the writing. I'm not the greatest television pundit or the best public speaker, so it's my writing that's most important.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

My honest opinion is that blacks have to fight much harder for their individuality than whites do.

My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation's past.