"[M]y goal is to get kids to own their education. I don't think I can hector them into doing this. I don't think I can…"

"Weakness, misery, does not always elicit sympathy. Perhaps that is because the weakness reminds of what we we fear fo…"

"No other athlete in a major sport gives so much of his body and gets so little in return than the average player on a…"

"Mr. [Clyde] Ross at that time, like most African Americans around the country, was unable to secure a loan, due to po…"

"When people wanted to criticize the Affordable Care Act they would often say “This is reparations. This is reparation…"

"You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery."

"Having been enslaved for 250 years, black people were not left to their own devices. They were terrorized. In the Dee…"

"[James Baldwin is] probably the biggest influence on me from a literary perspective."

"Racism isn’t just morally wrong, it makes for poor story-telling."

"I'm looking to avoid a subtly demeaning subtext which holds that reading, say, is something you should do--like floss…"