Anger... it's a paralyzing emotion... you can't get anything done.

I dream a dream that dreams back at me.

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.

I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.

The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.