I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which was religion.

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.

I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

To reproduce your life is to impact the world with it.

Is the any grace like go and sin no more?

So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It’s become my identity. If that’s gone, where am I?

Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture.

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

It's not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.

Our adversity is never just for us, but to bless others around us.

Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.