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

Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together.

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.

I've spent my entire adult life teaching at colleges of various kinds, all of them very different from Yale, and I have a fairly cynical perspective on what elite institutions - and the privileges they embody - represent in America.

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.