I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.
“Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.”
“A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.”