Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.