The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.
I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.
Why don’t we scale up those things that do work.
Don’t envy someone else’s gift. Discover your own.
Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you see in the mirror. Don’t allow the approval of others to obstruct your view of you.
I learned early on that it’s heartbreaking to – there’s the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that’s just been cut up, and maybe it’s better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don’t expect them to learn, if you don’t expect them to succeed – then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
When I’m at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.
To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.
This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.
For me, like when you’ve put yourself out there emotionally, physically, and you’ve really put yourself on the line, for me, that means I’ve really done something.
When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he’d been on the national stage at least, I’ve had – I’ve always respected the president.
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can’t think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.
I feel like I’ve been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I’m embarrassed, if I’m slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.
We give you the facts. I told you information is power – knowledge is power. We can’t be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don’t have the facts.