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A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration
Featuring Tim Wise, Odetta, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and more.
Everybody remembers the first time they were taught that part of the human race was Other. . . . It’s as though I told you that your left hand is not part of your body. Toni Morrison
Everybody remembers the first time they were taught that part of the human race was Other. . . . It’s as though I told you that your left hand is not part of your body.
Toni Morrison
Featuring Barbara Ehrenreich, Studs Terkel, David Budbill, and more.
Our God is the God of the widow and the orphan and the stranger, a God who says, “If you harm them, their cries will reach me.”
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. Karen Armstrong
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.
Karen Armstrong
Hasty judgments, classroom taunts, racial epithets
Featuring Akhim Yuseff Cabey, Ross Gay, Charlotte D. Staelin, and more.
I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved. Mildred D. Taylor
I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.
Mildred D. Taylor
If you say to me, “I don’t see race when I see you,” that means you’ve just erased a large piece of my experience and identity. That’s a type of violence.