“Yoga pants often answer questions I didn't ask.”

“Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law.”

“I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy.”

“I have zero tolerance for people with zero tolerance.”

“Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

“The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to just...”

“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be ...”

“If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.”