When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.

Seeing race is always about discriminating, a discerning, trained eye recognizing the "essential" or defining characteristic in the individual that confers racial categorization.

We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically.

Employment stereotypes you

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

When I try to make other people happy, I become happy.

Keep trying, especially at first. It can be very discouraging if your submissions keep being rejected by a publisher, but if your work is what people want to read, you should get there eventually!

No matter what the competition is I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.