When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
My honest opinion is that blacks have to fight much harder for their individuality than whites do. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I would love to see us, as blacks, get to the place where we say, 'I'm not going to play race games… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Whites know never tell blacks what you really think and what you really feel because you risk being seen as a racist.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
But blacks make little to no progress and, worse, the preoccupation with injustice only leaves them eternally inconsolable and cut off from… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
What the Clintons have always done is embraced challenging. They can't have enough photo opportunities with Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. They… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
When blacks become humanly visible, when their true beliefs are known, their mask shatters and their symbiotic bond with whites is broken. — Shelby Steele Copy Share
I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world. — Shelby Steele Copy Share
Freedom is just freedom. It is a condition, not an agent of change. It does not develop or uplift those who win it. Freedom… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
In Vietnam, America fought one whose communism was driven by an underlying nationalism, the desire to live free of the West. Whatever one may… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America. — Shelby Steele Copy Share
No doubt Israel and America have made mistakes in the Middle East. Certainly, Israel was born at the price of considerable dislocation and suffering… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
And if you want to make many of our black leaders angry, just tell them that racism is not the number problem that black… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
Thomas Sowell, among many others, has articulated the power of individual responsibility as an antidote to black poverty for over 40 years. Black thinkers… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton cannot write a timeless letter to us from a Birmingham jail or walk, as John Lewis did in 1965,… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third grade… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent.… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
We have laws on the books. If somebody's discriminating against you, I strongly advocate suing them. That's the most effective thing you can do… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
The first thing I ever heard about Barack Obama was that he had a white mother and a black father. Interestingly, the person who… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it… — Shelby Steele Copy Share
Without an ugly America to loathe, there is no automatic esteem to receive. Thus liberalism's unrelenting current of anti-Americanism. — Shelby Steele Copy Share
