To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.

America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values.

The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.

I'm afraid of them and they don't like mebecause I'm afraid.

Sometimes, ’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way.

Most pitchers are too smart to manage.

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.