I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

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.

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

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.

The truth is that an intellectual life is available to almost anyone, almost anywhere, if they work hard enough and are given some kind of access point.

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

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.