When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the m… - Roxane Gay

That’s not what I am looking for. John Louis von Neumann said, “If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.” Mathematics may well be simple, but the complexities of race and culture are often irreducible. They cannot be wholly addressed in a single essay or book or television show or movie.

I know what it means to hunger without being hungry. My father believes hunger is in the mind. I know differently. I know that hunger is in the mind and the body and the heart and the soul.

As Syreeta McFadden noted, “Only in America can a dead black boy go on trial for his own murder.