Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

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

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

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.