There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.