What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.

Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

I became a chameleon. My color didn't change. But I could change your perception of my color.

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.

There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

I knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know - David Hasselhoff was a Dutch character in my world.

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

So when I feel most lost I choose to remember those things that help me survive. I choose love.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

Being one of the angels is one of the few jobs that can totally change someone's life. For example, clients and designers who would have never given you a second look, now sit up and take notice.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum

The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.

My parents created their own war.