Vasily Stalin was "fine proof that the abuser of power corrupts everyone he touches, including his own children.  The Caesars, having reached the acme of their power, often left behind them children flawed in body and soul, morally dead while the dictator was still living and revelling in his own immorality."  -Dmitri Volkogonov

Svetlana Stalin, daughter of Josef, was by many standards mediocre at best.  She had several children by several men with whom she had short relationships, wasn't particularly productive, and at times equivocated between the USA and USSR.  And yet -- having some of the most awful parents in the world -- perhaps she was great.  As Jay Nordlinger writes, "[Stalin's] lone daughter broke through the mesmerism... Her conscience rose in rebellion against her father and his state.  This makes her exceedingly rare..."

John McWhorter wrote, "Being middle class, upwardly mobile, and Black has been quite common during my existence" and "I neither need nor want anyone to muse on how whiteness privileges them over me."  Hear hear.  

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”  -Friedrich Nietzsche