If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.

White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.

one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.

Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

I was not a name I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

And Allah made the kindness to parents as a protectional shield to His wrath and displeasure.

The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines. They had to. Suckers.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.

Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.