Charity of mind! Without charity of mind, what is life?
Light is only possible through dialogue between cultures, not through rejection of one or the other.
…in America, what a man does to live often has nothing to do with how he lives.
He led Gene to the stable and pointed to a large white horse. “Will he do?” he asked. “He’s a palomino.”
“Any pal of Mino is a pal of mine,” Gene tooted, though the sight of the mighty stallion, which stood nearly six feet tall at the shoulders, made him nervous.
You can forever remember the wrongs done to you as long as you live,…But if you forget ’em and go on living, it’s almost as good as forgiving.
one’s tribe cannot be better than another tribe because they were all one tribe
And the absence of her meant a thousand tomorrows empty of whatever promise they once held.
An unjust parent will raise an unjust child who is a snare to righteousness. 
Kindness. Love. Principle. It runs the world.
The white man despised him in Pennsylvania as much as he did in the Low Country. The difference was that the white man in the South spoke his hatred in clear, clean, concise terms, whereas the white man in the new country hid his hatred behind stories of wisdom and bravado, with false smiles of sincerity and stories of Jesus Christ and other nonsense that he tossed about like confetti in the Pottstown parade.
…if you wanna be famous or important, die at the right time.
Contemporology 