The humility of wonder opens everything.
Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.
Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released.
Not a Harvard-type education,. . . Just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.
If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!
We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You've got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it's immune to and what breaks it down.
I literally don't know what I'm going to do next. That's successful.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
I never considered my dreams wasted energy; they were invariably linked to some form of action. When I dreamed about having a lemonade stand, for example, it wasn't long before I set up a lemonade stand.
The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.
In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since