The essence of American racism is disrespect.

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.

I am exactly who I am choosing to be. Should I change my choice, the universe will always be there to assist me.

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles. Other than that, the most valuable tip I've learned is always use a skin moisturiser!

Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

No-one wants to grow up and be a Gary Neville.

Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.

Only when we have something to value, will we have something to evaluate.. and we cannot value something that we cannot share, exchange, and examine.

God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

Hillary Clinton is funded by people who murder homosexuals.

If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.