Sunny Hostin > Quotes

“There are white people who chafe when white privilege is mentioned, saying they’ve never been handed anything because of their race. But to me, that’s not what white privilege is. Rather, the benefits arise from absence, the absence of bigotry and unfair barriers; the absence of stereotypes and diminished expectations. Very simply, privilege is the freedom that comes from not facing discrimination because you’re white.”
― Sunny Hostin, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

“not being in love is enough reason to split up. You don’t need a punishable offense to leave. The Lord knows that a truly loveless marriage is punishment enough.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“For African Americans and Latinos trying to circulate and make it in the larger white world, code-switching is a fluidity born of necessity, so subtle that most whites have no idea that we do it, though it requires great skill and can be exhausting.”
― Sunny Hostin, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

“I recognize that allies come from all backgrounds.”
― Sunny Hostin, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

“Her father told her it was less “studying” and more like “staring.” Hearing his voice in her head, she shyly looked away.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“It’s just that for those who are wealthy or white, a whole group isn’t defined by the unfortunate actions of a few.”
― Sunny Hostin, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

“Every shut eye ain’t sleep and every goodbye ain’t gone.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“mercy for me. I, too, am better than the worst things”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“fill your life with purpose. You always have goals, and you surround yourself with the best people.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on Sag Harbor

“Head knowledge is what people tell you is true. Heart knowledge is what you went out there in the big, bad world and learned for yourself—in the end, that’s the only unshakable truth any of us can ever have.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“It always seemed like people were so caught up in the first—first Black astronaut, first Black president, first Black artist to exhibit at this museum or that—that they lost the glory of a life on a continuum.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“And I realize that a person’s actions, however offensive, are not always rooted in bigotry.”
― Sunny Hostin, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

“You spend a quarter of your life or more looking for love. Then you spend the next twenty-five years figuring out how to love. Then you spend the remaining decades knowing just how little time you have left to love.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“bad that her girls would likely never know the incomparable pleasure of opening up the mailbox and seeing a letter from a lover, the script as familiar as his hands.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Sunny Hostin, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

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― Sunny Hostin

“I want to be the one who makes her smile like that. I want to spend my life with a woman capable of such joy.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“You don’t worry about the haters. Once you hear the sound of your own authentic voice, once you feel you’ve found a purpose that is more important than your own comfort, you can’t ignore it. To me, a perfect day is trying to help eke out justice for those who are going unheard and doing something for someone else without any expectation that they will do anything for me.”
― Sunny Hostin, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

“I think there are three defining days in your life. Besides day one, when you are born, and the day when you discover your purpose, I believe there is a day in between. And that is the moment when you find out who you will not be, who you will not become. Your day two.”
― Sunny Hostin, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

“If you’ll allow me to give you some advice from the grave—not being in love is enough reason to split up. You don’t need a punishable offense to leave. The Lord knows that a truly loveless marriage is punishment enough.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“We sometimes forget who we were. But the ones who have journeyed with us longest—our parents, our siblings—they remember. They always see not just who we are but all the selves we used to be.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“Joan Didion once wrote, “I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.” Ama didn’t know it until the girls came into her life, but that was the glue that made family, at least her family, so powerful. We sometimes forget who we were. But the ones who have journeyed with us longest—our parents, our siblings—they remember. They always see not just who we are but all the selves we used to be.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“Omar never lost the quiet humility of the boy who spent most of his twenties working in a button factory. He gained a reputation for being unpretentious, honest, and loyal.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“She knew she could love more than one man. She knew this because she loved herself.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“What do you do when you love all those who made you who you are, but the outside world doesn’t do the same? What do you do when your authentic self is dissected and debated by others who want to deny the dualities that have always made up this country?”
― Sunny Hostin, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

“what she knows. Are you rolling with me or not?” Layla reached out and squeezed her friend’s shoulder.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“That’s the importance of being part of the system. Being inside means that you are intimately familiar with all the ways that it is broken, and it gives you an edge in figuring out how it can be fixed.”
― Sunny Hostin, I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds

“Tiwa Savage,”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on Sag Harbor

“But out on the Atlantic, nothing but sun and sky before her, she felt the simple truth that would become the bedrock of her adult life: God is. Only a higher power could create a vista like this.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs

“I’m the kind of person who recycles materials but I also recycle emotions and feelings.”
― Sunny Hostin, Summer on the Bluffs