Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.