the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.

It's not exactly courageous to be an anti-racist these days; a hundred years ago, it was.

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

Unlike the vast majority of people, I've been locked in a box like an animal and I've also been on the receiving end of bloody thrashings, so I feel uniquely qualified to judge which is worse.

I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.

Homosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.

Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.