And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.
It strikes me that what the attack on the World Trade Center stole from us is our willingness to be complex. Or what the attack on the World Trade Center revealed to us is that we were never complex....
I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word. (Ralph Ellison)
A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.
What does a victorious or defeated black woman’s body in a historically white space look like? Serena and her big sister Venus Williams brought to mind Zora Neale Hurston’s I feel most colored when I...
Not long ago you are in a room where someone asks the philosopher Judith Butler what makes language hurtful. You can feel everyone lean in. Our very being exposes us to the address of another, she ans...
Not long ago you are in a room where someone asks the philosopher Judith Butler what makes language hurtful. Our very being exposes us to the address of another, she answers. We suffer from the condit...