When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.

...that you should be nice to everyone until a person gives you reason not to be, and sometimes even then.

Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack.

I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

I don't think Neil Young has a beautiful voice but it's something that grabs you and the songs are so good.

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.