I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think. — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages. — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal. — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share
Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation on the irreducible gift of one's own counsel in the face of great suffering, as well as a reminder of the responsibility each of us owes in valuing the community of our humanity. There are few wiser, kinder,… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
