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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.