In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line to me. You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that's, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.