I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.

Strength for today, overflowing grace.

Every gift of a new day is an opportunity to discover a happier you.

If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.