I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

