Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. - Fran Lebowitz

Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

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.