There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.

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

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

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.

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.

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.

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