[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.

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.

Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?

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

Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.

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

I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.