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This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.

The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear – that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy – is one of their strengths.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it’s as if they don’t exist.

We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don’t even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

I bristle again. I have never liked being called clever, especially by residents of the paler nation. It never quite means the same thing as intelligent or even bright, but carries instead an intimation of a low animal cunning. Perhaps the semiotician in me overreacts in assuming that conversations are racially charged; but so many conversations are.

Even in 2012, if there’s a black character in the movies or on television that’s a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they’re always ’up from the streets.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs – almost as fads – rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another’s eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

If you’re fascinated by America, you’ll be fascinated by family.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it’s not self-defense. It’s an execution.

True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one’s fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion.

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.

In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.

We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

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Being on the inside could be an addiction

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The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

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She and her late husband, Leander Cross, a prominent surgeon of the darker nation, were, in my childhood, perhaps the leading host of the Gold Coast party circuit, a circuit my parents traveled often, because it was, in those days, what one did: glittering dinner at one house on the Friday, champagne brunch at another on the Sunday, caterers, cooks, even temporary butlers at the ready as the best of black Washington charged about in mad imitation of white people's foolishness.

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I pass flurries of undergrads who, despite their proudly proclaimed diversity, look more and more the same.

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

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I do not know where Romeo comes from or even his real name. He was once on the street, as he puts it-meaning he dealt drugs-but managed to find Jesus without the inconvenience of first going to prison.

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The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.

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She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

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So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.

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The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

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This is what conservatives have spawned with their welfare cuts and their indifference to the plight of those not like themselves, say my colleagues at the university. This is what liberals have spawned with their fostering of the victim mentality and their indifference to the traditional values of hard work and family, my father used to tell his cheering audiences. In my sour moments, it strikes me that both sides seem much more interested in winning the argument than in alleviating these women's suffering.

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Depression is seductive: it offends and teases, frightens you and draws you in, tempting you with its promise of sweet oblivion, then overwhelming you with a nearly sexual power, squirming past your defenses, dissolving your will, invading the tired spirit so utterly that it becomes difficult to recall that you ever lived without it...or to imagine that you might live that way again. With all the guile of Satan himself, depression persuades you that its invasion was all your own idea, that you wanted it all along. It fogs the part of the brain that reasons, that knows right from wrong. It captures you with its warm, guilty, hateful pleasures, and, worst of all, it becomes familiar. All at once, you find yourself in thrall to the very thing that most terrifies you. Your work slides, your friendships slide, your marriage slides, but you scarcely notice: to be depressed is to be half in love with disaster.

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

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In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

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Better to wait actively than passively.

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They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

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It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

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This isn't about your reputation. Our job right now is to make sure that there to ARE future historians.

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He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

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People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

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She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

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Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.

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