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I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous.

I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college.

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

I'm not an Uncle Tom ... I'm going to be here for 40 years. For those who don't like it, get over it.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

I went into the seminary when I was 16.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

I was Catholic. You talk about a minority within a minority within a minority: a black Catholic in Savannah, GA.

I hear people say it affected your self-esteem to be segregated. It never affected mine.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

I've probably given more speeches, been on TV more than any other member of the Court - or almost any other member of the Court.

I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.