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My individuality is my gift to my people.
Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.
My rule is, whatever is the most urgent is what I do next.
Liberalism is exhausted because it has become a corruption.
There's a little racism out here, always was, and always will be.
Innocents don't learn from their sins; the chastened are informed by them.
I will take Al Sharpton seriously. And I know him, he's a nice, nice person.
Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.
Hatred is a transformative power. It can make the innocuous into the menacing.
The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.
Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.
Racist societies enforce the idea of race as home by making race an inescapable fate.
I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world.
For many on the left a hateful anti-Americanism has become a self-congratulatory lifestyle.
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.
Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America.
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.
My honest opinion is that blacks have to fight much harder for their individuality than whites do.
I've tried to be graceful and I've tried to make sure my arguments are grounded in reason and insight.
John McCain is simply a man of considerable character, poor guy. He is utterly bereft of cultural cachet.
If this war makes anything clear, it is that Israel can do nothing to appease the Muslim animus against her.
I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.
Our families have fallen to pieces. 75 percent of all black children are born out of wedlock, without a father.
If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.
Freedom in America was not always flat. Racism made it un-flat, so that some people had privileges over other people.
When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else.
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.
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 grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It's harder now for young blacks to find a closed one.
Without an ugly America to loathe, there is no automatic esteem to receive. Thus liberalism's unrelenting current of anti-Americanism.
As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.
And if you want to make many of our black leaders angry, just tell them that racism is not the number problem that black Americans face.
When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken.
The only thing that makes me interesting as a writer is that I'm just talking common sense. The most ordinary, everyday sort of common sense.
I know personally that being a conservative minority is a test of character. Identity, after all, is an integral and cherished part of the self.
Barack Obama's strategy is to get away from anything having to do with race as quickly as he can. His fear is that that might open a Pandora's Box.
The evil of slavery and colonialism was that these oppressions kept their victims out of history, disconnected them from the evolutionary struggle.
In theory, affirmative action certainly has all the moral symmetry that fairness requires. It is reformist and corrective, even repentent and redemptive.
To this day it is all but impossible for me to actually stop and think of my parents as white and black or to think of myself, therefore, as half and half.
White guilt morally and culturally disarms the West. It makes the First World apologetic. And this, of course, only inflames the narcissism of the ineffectual.
My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third grade education from the south.
Now, white America is using blacks, exploiting them, enabling their dependency so that they can say, we are innocent of racism, and therefore we are legitimate.
I would love to see us, as blacks, get to the place where we say, 'I'm not going to play race games with you. Here I am. This is who I am. Take it or leave it.'
Racism and bigotry generally are the great driving engines of modern American liberalism. Even a remote hint of racism can trigger a kind of moral entrepreneurism.
Rap makes the conservative argument about what happens when family life is eroded either by welfare and drugs, or by the stresses and indulgences of middle-class life.
I grew up in a time when there was real segregation. And blacks during the 50s and so forth took a lot of responsibility for their lives because the government didn't.
The 'safe spaces' for minority students on university campuses are actually redemptive spaces for white students and administrators looking for innocence and empowerment.
In certain quarters, conservatism is simply racism by another name. And minorities who openly identify themselves as conservatives are still novelties, fish out of water.
A bargainer is a black who enters the American, the white American mainstream by saying to whites in effect, in some code form, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.