Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

Society becomes how you behave.

He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.

I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me.

My baby is amazing, even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him!

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.

If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.