Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

I live to harass white folks.

Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises.

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

Courage is a finite resource, it is exhausted by the terrors we face.

Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.

Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

Humor is man's greatest blessing.

We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.

The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe.