You don't hurry a thinker, and you don't talk to him when he's thinking. It's just inconsiderate.

Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

How could you deal with a creature as devious as woman.

Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now?

He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.