American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.