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

I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people. - Ta

These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.