“Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's belie...” — James Baldwin Quote

“Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.”

“There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.”

“Of course, I must say that I don't think America is God's gift to anybody--if it is, God's days have”

“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”

“Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.”

“The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.”

“I just dove into the Scriptures and started memorizing different scriptures and started becoming as much as possible a part of the scripture. I wanted it to be grafted into my heart.”

“As America becomes an older nation, it is also, by some measures, becoming sicker.”

“Once-in-a-generation weather events are now becoming a regular occurrence. Whether it be public safety power shutoffs or electric system failures due to extreme weather events, we must invest in grid resilience and modernization in order to keep the power on in impacted communities.”

“We are not the technology. It should be our - you know, our slave, the technology. But it's rapidly becoming our master in many areas, I think.”

“The retirement at WrestleMania 32 was a bittersweet moment for me. I was excited to see the next chapter of my life, which is becoming a mother, but at the same time, it was a very historical moment. It was a big part of what the Women's Division has been striving and fighting for.”