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

Maybe I'm just sensitive to that person who's on the outside.

Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition.

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.

I just rode cross-country and the thing I noticed is just how afraid everyone is, and how nervous and scared and angry people are. From my point of view, I don't think it's all necessarily justified, but I think that's easy for me to say.

There are certain things that happen in New York that just don't happen anywhere else.

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