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I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.

Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.