"The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again."

"All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small."

"People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not."

"So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history."

"I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff."

"The integration of neural networks into our daily lives means a tool that amplifies human creativity rather than replacing it, and we must be prepared for the consequences."

"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."

"It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach."