What Determines Your Altitude In Life Is

I Believed That President Obama Was A Good Choice A Couple Of Years Ago Because I Felt That, As A Black Man, If He Could Win, It Would Open Up Progressive Possibilities In This Country For A Lot Of People. That Was My Major Reason For Believing His Candidacy Was A Good Thing. However, I Don't Endorse Candidates, Given The Type Of Work That I Do. My Job Is To Hold People Accountable.

This Whole Notion Of A Post Racial America Was Nonsense From The Very Beginning. It Was A Bad Idea, A Bad Notion, A Bad Formulation When It Was First Raised.

Life Is About Committing Ourselves On A Daily Basis To The Best In Us. Freedom Is A State Of Mind. Freedom Is An Attitude. Freedom Is A Spirit. You May Be Behind Bars, But You Still Have The Capacity To Be Free. I've Visited Some People Behind Bars Who Are Freer Than Negroes I See Running Around Every Day. Being In Jail, Or Poor, Or Uneducated Doesn't Determine How Free You Can Be. There Are Really Only Two Types Of People. Either You're Running Scared Or You're Running Free. I Choose To Run Free, And You Can, Too, No Matter What Your Circumstances In Life.

I Still Think In This Country, And This Might Surprise You, The One Thing That George Bush Said As President That I Do Agree With, I Love That Phrase, "the Soft Bigotry Of Low Expectations."

I Can't Count The Number Of People I've Talked To Over The Course Of My Career Who Have Said To Me That The Thing That They Most Regret Is The One Time They Did Something Just For The Money.