He was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female.

Hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, nor even HI...

Give a great deal of attention to keeping his managers and his technical people as interchangeable as their talents allow. The barriers are sociological... To overcome this problem some laboratories,...

Enslaved black males were socialized by white folks to believe that they should endeabor to become patriarchs by seeking to attain the freedom to provide and protect for black women, to be benevolen p...

Ella se iba desprendiendo de mi abrazo, y su espíritu, cada vez más etéreo, ya no me pesaba como antes. A los cinco días ella dio sus primeros pasos por los alrededores, mientras yo dormitaba, pero no...

But these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... (Afterward)

But I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

A minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is quite imaginary...Just ask yourselves: what would this particula...

[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughter...

When we quietly go about our business as our rights are plundered, when we yield to passivity and switch on the wii and hand over our power, we are not acting like true Americans. Indeed, at those mom...

What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and su...

Victim-eyes of impersonal tragedy, to be impersonal no longer.

The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same race as now, in our age, really, it seems we are a different species...In those days they were men of o...

May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around y...

I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of...

I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

I blink back the threat of tears, swiped at my nose and narrowed my eyes. Listen to me, you two bags of monkey shit, I yelled. I am not in a good mood. My car keeps stalling. The day before yesterday...

Gravity might just be the manifestation of other forces---not a force itself, but the peripheral result of something else...So if gravity were an emergent force, It would mean that gravity isn't the c...

Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of things, a...

At least you got Soda. I ain't got nobody. Shoot, I said, startled out of my misery, you got the whole gang. Dally didn't slug you tonight cause you're the pet. I mean, golly, Johnny, you got the whol...