Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat,…

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Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less...

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less...

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor...

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor...

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I...

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I...

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable...

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable...

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I...

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I...

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate...

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate...

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you...

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you...

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but...

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but...

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going...

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going...

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police...

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police...

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout...

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout...

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class...

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class...

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones...

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones...

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black...

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black...

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's...

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's...

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody...

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody...