If people don't want to listen to <i>you<i>, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?</i></i> - Fran Lebowitz

To me, nothing can be more important than giving children books, It's better to be giving books to children than drug treatment to them when they're 15 years old. Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

The customary way for white people to think about the topic of race — and it is only a topic to white people — is to ask, “How would it be if I were black?”…..

The way to approach it, I think, is…to seriously consider what it is like to be white.

I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.