Racist behavior in our society is largely static, unnoticed, unremarked, and unconsciously accommodated by Americans of all colors.

Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation’s history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.

Americans don’t bother to notice anybody else in the world.

Until America’s white ruling class accepts the fact that the book never closes on massive unredressed social wrongs, America can have no future as one people.

Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that’s chewing up.

Reagan was conservative, but he didn’t approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

Ancestor worship is not alone the exotic preoccupation of quaint people mired in superstition in some remote corner of the world. Larger-than-life evidence of its industrialized-world variants can be seen in virtually every public park in America.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes – social and economic – are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

You try to steer a course in American society that’s not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.

We’ve been taught in America that big is best. That’s why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.