Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

My parents didn't really restrict my movement, so I got involved in the underground music scene and the activism scene; I was doing some volunteering in food relief. I spent a lot of time throughout the city in poor areas, even though my family lived in a wealthy area.

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

Yale's endowment became a metaphor for the kind of training it offered its graduates, namely, how to exploit the global marketplace, and technology, for your own interests, while maintaining a smokescreen of virtuous intent.

Because of all the cosmetic services like skin whitening and hair bleaching, there is a lot that people can do to change their appearance without having actual surgery. It's quite common in Thailand and Korea and Japan.

There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.

Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.