I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that.

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff works. I bring all that stuff to teaching now.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

It's just never the same. At least for me.It's probably because it's just who I am, I never know what that [truth] is. It's so momentary to go, "Oh, yeah, that's true." That's a fundamental starting point for me - to figure out what's true from moment to moment to moment.

The anger and fear are so global. And of course, we live where we live and there's a hierarchy to who is worth what. It's been going on for a long, long time.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.