“Trump thrives on spite, vengeance and public humiliation.” — Jonathan Capehart Quote

Trump thrives on spite, vengeance and public humiliation.

I'm all for keeping people out of jail who shouldn't be there. And I'm certainly all for the equal application of our laws, even the Second Amendment. But the trade-off - more guns legally on the street and concealed - hardly makes me feel safer.

When you're Black in the United States, you grudgingly grow accustomed to having people deny that your existence is integral to everything that makes this country what it is.

Any Black person who thinks there is a loophole to avoid paying the respectability tax is delusional. Recognizing that doesn't make you any less Black. It makes you realistic.

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

I'm trying to make things better, and you have people outside who are constantly trying to make things terrible all the time. Why? Because humiliation sells.

The flip side of humiliation is pride.

I've struggled so much in my life and I've seen so much of rejection, insult and humiliation, that it can turn into a film.