“For just once in my life, I’d like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who’s got an attitude about the way I look.”

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don’t know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

“Criminal justice” was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.’ My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

No matter how old we get, life’s always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you’ve learned ten times before.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you’re either this, or you’re that.

The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

There are no insect eggs in my food.” Mrs. White reiterated. You should use that in your advertising,” Nate suggested.

I am the color red in a world full of black and white, and if you value your ability to breathe, don’t get too close. Save us, Chris. Save yourself.

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s callous enjoinder ‘you never want a serious crisis to go to waste’? This White House is a serious crisis.

What the White House is trying to do is racialize all politics and they’re especially trying to tell the African-American voter that the GOP is against letting them have a chance at a good life in this economy, and that’s just a complete lie.