“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“A white person and a black person in today's New York City can agree over coffee that race is `all in your mind, but when they leave Starbucks and raise their hands to hail a taxi, the white person is more likely to get a cab. In that moment, race is as real as gravity.”
David Berreby
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.”
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
“From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were--I have not seenAs others saw.”
“years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.”
