The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.