We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

A person in such a hurry seldom gets good results

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots.

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

Carry your wings of hope so high in the sky that there is no room left for disappointments.

I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.

Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country.

My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.