“Most of us would rather claim to have always been perfect that admit how much we have grown.”

“We never asked for racism or white supremacy but rather Whites admit that we have always been another shade of humanity.”

“I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”

“The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better classes to amuse ourselves by investigating them and uplifting them and at dinners telling how charitable we are. The poor don't like it much. They have no gratitude. They would rather be uplifters themselves. But if they are taken firmly in hand they can be kept reasonably dependent and interesting for years.”

“He was so heartrendingly perfect he took my breath away. I wondered how I could have been so lucky to have met him, much less have him sacrifice so much of his time for me. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for him. I think I fell for him the first moment I laid eyes on him, but over the weeks my feelings had grown and grown. I had to admit that I was in love- deeply, endlessly, hopelessly, head over heels in love.”

“I think most of us would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich we would be doing something else.”