The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

It is your life, enthusiastically accept the challenge.

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important. It is how we get up after the fall that's important.