“People like to accept answers that align with their own suspicions. They like answers that they don’t have to really consider before accepting, because they’re more concerned with the cares that are directly in front of them.”

“To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.”

“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love.”

“The long-term answer to a kid not caring about your concerns is to care more about his.”

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. ”

“...the important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes. Otherwise there is no access to the dark night of the soul.”