Quote from Wendell Berry

"It may be the most significant irony in our history that racism, by dividing the two races, has made them not separate but in a fundamental way inseparable, not independent but dependent on each other, incomplete without each other, each needing desperately to understand and make use of the experience of the other. After so much time together we are one body, and the division between us is the disease of one body, not of two."
Wendell Berry
This comment by one of my "favs" touches me deeply. The only issue I would take with it is while Wendell sees two races divided/connected, there are many more... I believe his comment also applies remarkably well to the relationships of men and women as well.