the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.

I remember how amazing it felt to be loved by him and how he was all I ever wanted.

Life is not just about surviving, it’s about finding fulfillment.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

I’m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.

Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.

The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.