Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

As a retailer, we want everyone out there to earn more money, but then if you're running a business, and we can't make money because the wages are too high, that's a problem.

Understanding money is part of being independent. You can't be self-sufficient if you're relying on someone else.

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.

Some of the things I've done in my life, I've done to make money because I had to make money... and some things I did just because they were on my mind and they were of interest to me... some of the little plays I wrote.