Achievement Quote by Tom Tancredo

Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“As a person of color in America, you need to fly to reach the hallowed gates of wealth and mainstream success while others can…

— Wajahat Ali

“There was no tenure committee or central committee, however, to lift Oprah out of the societal mud-to say, for example, to Phil Donahue, "Move…

— David Horowitz

Rachel Dolezal stepped down from her position as president of an NAACP chapter after it was revealed that she was a white woman pretending…

— Jimmy Fallon

“The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about themselves. They…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“As a straight, cisgender, able-bodied, neurotypical, first-world, middle-class white woman, she struggled to maintain a constant awareness of her privilege, and to avoid using…

— Tom Perrotta

Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity.

— Eileen O'Brien

I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that.

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a…

— Gwen Ifill

“The greatest benefit of negative capability—the true power of negative thinking—is that it lets the mystery back in.”

— Oliver Burkeman

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact…

— Judith Viorst