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

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.

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

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.

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero, who I much admired. So, I never really had anxiety in the way that someone like Obama would have. When he walks down the street alone, since no one knows who his mother is, they're just going to see him as a black guy.