Newfoundland is a great English ship moored near the Banks during the fishing season for the convenience of the English fishermen.

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.

When you constantly push your mind and body in your chosen field and never give up your confidence will be unshatterable!

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

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

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.

Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

May the living have hope.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love...it's: Wow, life is good.

Gerald Green is a fine Coach and Trainer, I have every confidence in his professionalism.

Tone can be as important as text.

The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?