The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

The coachs job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years ago because it's been really helpful.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them.

There was earth inside them, and they dug.

At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.