“The Hammer was a hard man, a smart man too, and he took pride in always having a plan b. For those troubling occasions when plan b didnt work, he would strive to also have a plan c in place. In sho...”

“Ramalama was moving higher in the sky already, the day was getting on. He was going to be late getting to San Fedora for his meeting with the Sheriff. And as a bounty hunter even a good one with a...”

“Voting on things is democratic, yes - but not on deciding on whether or not people should be equal or have human rights. That isn't democracy, it is mob rule.Everybody should be equal in a democrac...”

“Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.”

“Wearing a smile while claiming to not judge and condemn people as you equate their nature with no less than a carnal and immoral act rather than as understanding their orientation and identity as a...”

“Imagine, if you will:Meradinis!The stuff myths are made of! The Turtle Island of the stars home planet to the fearsome and once legendary Corsairs. The very name of this world immediately grabbed ...”

“Apparently some rustlers had been swiping red-horned wildebeest from farms in the San Fedora area and transporting them off-world to other colonies where they would sell them. And these were known ...”

“But when she was annoyed with me, she had a cold way of saying Apparently in answer to almost anything I said, making me feel stupid. Um, I cant find the can opener. Apparently. Theres going to be ...”

“Apparently the rarest commodities on earth are truth and honesty.”

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!”

“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 ...”