What I leave behind has a life of its own.

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.

How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?

And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .