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.

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

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

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

Can't go on singing the same theme, 'cause baby, can't you see, we've got everything going on? Every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you.

The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it, and what it can do if successful.

Hurry is the death of Prayer.

whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.