“He treated me as a man… He did not let me feel for a moment that there was any difference in the color of our skins.”

“Optics is an example of the different ways a human is able to see things in the world. The same goes for the color of a person's skin and even though optics present that there are differences in color, these do not state that they should necessarily be treated as different.”

“Mel is sensual with me. He treats me like an uncle - a dirty uncle. He's an earthy man and very moral underneath. He has traditional values.”

“I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.”

“God killed me, and only after He made me into someone entirely different from the person I had been, did he call me back to life.”

“He [Nehru] used to treat me with respect even when he didn't agree with me.”

“Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.”

“It’s that I think Will is angry with me,” Tessa explained. “So whatever he told you—”
He laughed. “Will is angry with everyone,” he said. “I don’t let it color my judgment.”

“Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.”

“There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn't feel ignored. I felt we were part of the same moment, and it didn't need to be defined.”