They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.
Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.
It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know, I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.
Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
I do believe you're only as sick as your secrets.
Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.
You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and lows of this presidency from an African-American perspective. More than simply a column collection, the book has a substantial introduction that frames the [Barack] Obama presidency, explores the way Obama was treated by the political establishment and also how this first black president treated "his" people. In the epilogue, I use numbers to tell the story of African-American gains and losses during this presidency.
Imagination is the will of things. . . .
Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.