the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

- Patricia J. Williams

I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegeta…

- Patricia J. Williams

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 sc…

- Patricia J. Williams

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

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 irre…

- Patricia J. Williams

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 attribute its s…

- Patricia J. Williams

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

- Patricia J. Williams

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 her own, leaving …

- Patricia J. Williams

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 powe…

- Patricia J. Williams