My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

Courage is a finite resource, it is exhausted by the terrors we face.