Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex.
I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.
With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
It's impossible to play football in a world among men and not fight for equality.
The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.