As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?

If knowledge is a glass of water, then wisdom is the unlimited, infinite and not yet invented ocean.

Innovative wisdom with purpose defines a leader.

Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.

It's important for couples to be friends first and to respect each other as individuals.

The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It's the assets you have to worry about.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

Interdependency follows independence.