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 shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.

Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) - ISBN: 9781466896055