The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.
Effectively transcending and conquering the legacies of enchainment, impoverishment and racial denigration continue to elude us. Residual elements of the plantation-based past continue to shape our societies and determine their trajectories.
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.
And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.
Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.
People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.
As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
We do not need the empire to give us anything.
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
Strong encryption enables commerce and protects us online.
My brother still calls me didi, which is so endearing. That's how our mother raised us.
