“That’s not an accident that Donald Trump didn’t begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.”

With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.

The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully.

You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that’s, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.

I think, as a writer, I’m in my own head.

What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices-more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth.

Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American.

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.

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.

Giving opportunities to other people, it’s only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.

Talk about class and hope no one notices.

What I am telling you is that you do not need to know to love, and it is right that you feel it all in any moment. And it is right that you see it through–that you are amazed, then curious, then belligerent, then heartbroken, then numb. You have the right to all of it.

What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

The symbolism was in – and this sounds really, really small, but it’s actually big for African-Americans – the symbolism was not in being an embarrassment, but to being a figure that folks were actually proud of.

I Tweeted Keri Hilson the other day and she actually wrote back! I was so excited.

You should shower,” i said. “right now.” “i smell that bad?” (patch) actually, he smelled that good.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

I endorse only products I actually use. Like Wheaties keeps offering me money, but I don’t eat Wheaties, so I can’t do it. Now, if Rice Krispies or Frosted Flakes offered me a deal, I’d take it right away. Apple Jacks, I’d be on the box in a heartbeat. Apple Shaqs. Yeah.