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

My rule is, whatever is the most urgent is what I do next.

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

I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as a black woman, and that was just the end of it. So, I don't have a feeling of being bi-racial. I don't have a connection to it. People often come up to me thinking I do have a connection to it, and I kind of let them down because I really don't.

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

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life.