We all get misinformation growing up about people who are different from ourselves.

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.

In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.

The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the sales man did.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.

I'm not a "what if." I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.

Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.

Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent.

Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.