"Our portion of life is the whole thing for us."

"Race and racism is probably the most studied social, economic and political phenomenon in this country, but…"

"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible."

"We would most gladly ye came yourself if that ye may, and if ye may not, we pray you not to fail, but to ac…"

"People often assume that anyone who studies evolution thinks that everything should be about the survival o…"

"For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition o…"