He wants to put his story next to hers.

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Something that is loved is never lost.

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.