“Martha's Vineyard is a very strange place, racially speaking. Or maybe...” — Thomas Chatterton Williams Quote

“Martha's Vineyard is a very strange place, racially speaking. Or maybe it's the way things could be if everyone had a bit more money and job security and status and could meet on equal enough footing.”

“What I know now is that I used to not just tolerate but submit to and even on some deep level need our society's web of problems called race, its received and dangerous habits of thinking about and organizing people along a binary of white and black, free and unfree, even once I suspected them to be irredeemably flawed.”

“I refuse to go onstage without looking into the eyes and touching everyone I'm working with... we're all in it together, and everyone's an equal part when we're onstage.”

“Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?”

“Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.”