I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

...the change was adjustment without improvement.