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The Most Ironic Outcome Of The Black Civil Rights Movement Has Been The Creation Of A New Black Middle Class Which Is Increasingly Separate From The Black Underclass.

Everything My Mother And Father Did Was Designed To Put Me Where I Am.

You Have A Diasporic Black World, And The Only Way To Put It Back Together Again Is Symbolic. It's Like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever Could Edit The 'encyclopedia Africana' Would Provide Symbolic Order To The Fragments Created Over The Past 500 Years. That Is A Major Contribution.

For Me, A Garden Is Peace Of Mind. It Immediately Takes My Mind Off The Thing I'm Puzzling About In My Work And Gives Me Repose.

It's No Surprise That White People Say Things When They Are Together About Black People.