I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the entire Western world. Black children today are hammered with the… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In the broader American culture - the mainstream media, the world of the arts and entertainment, the high-tech world, and the entire… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I think that Mr. Obama is not just inexperienced; he is also hampered by a distinct inner emptiness - not an emptiness… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
White guilt morally and culturally disarms the West. It makes the First World apologetic. And this, of course, only inflames the narcissism… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old… — 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 Image
I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
