The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself.

I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.

Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.

What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.

That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.