We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.

Obama will win. We will win. Then we will continue to lose. And the right questions will never be honestly asked or answered, and it's all just too much.

Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.

Black children need waves of present, multifaceted love, not simply present fathers.

His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless ...

Maybe knowledge is power, but it's damned hard to think a burglar to death.

People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.

I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.

Comedy is frightening at first because you're opening yourself up. When it's just you and people hate it, you're like, "Oh God. Do they hate me?"

I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.