People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.