“It is fun, I learned, to stroll around with Spike Lee and to gauge oth...” — Thomas Chatterton Williams Quote

“It is fun, I learned, to stroll around with Spike Lee and to gauge other people's reactions. Everyone recognizes him.”

“Yet exactly what constitutes privilege and disadvantage can be counterintuitive: There is no metric to take into account the casual racism that I had to navigate in my neighborhood, a difficulty I was keenly aware friends of mine on the more socially cohesive and nurturing black side of town were often able to avoid.”

“Mobs in the street tearing down Ulysses S. Grant statues is a really chilling sight.”

“I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.”

“It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.”

“When you're promoting a film it's really interesting trying to gauge what people think about it.”