The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.

We all get misinformation growing up about people who are different from ourselves.

In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

Civility must be a natural thing

Revenge is like waves hitting the beach, the water is drawn in and sucked back into yet another wave, pounding and smashing its shoreline!

How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others.

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Sometimes when you say goodbye, that's the right thing to do in a relationship.

Art is a perfectly complete cause.