legend, mike

"You know, there is something about a tangle of strangers pressed together for days with nothing in common but the need to go from one place to another, and never see each other again."

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

"Here's the problem with everything that's going on in this conversation. This isn't all about just one man killed in one town. It's about how people of color, no matter their socioeconomic standing, face obstacles in this country with surprising grace. I guarantee you that every person of color in this country has faced an indignity — from the ridiculous to the grotesque to the sometimes fatal — at some point in their, I'm going to say, last couple of hours. Because of their skin color."

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness..."