[my Grandmother] Is A Typical White Person.

Affirmative Action Is Not Going To Be The Long-term Solution To The Problems Of Race In America, Because, Frankly, If You've Got 50 Percent Of African-american Or Latino Kids Dropping Out Of High School, It Doesn't Really Matter What You Do In Terms Of Affirmative Action. Those Kids Aren't Going To College.

Reading Is The Gateway Skill That Makes All Other Learning Possible

When Our Interests And Values Are At Stake, We Have A Responsibility To Act.

I Think I Have A Pretty Good Take On Popular Culture That Maybe Makes Up For The Fact That I'm Not A Sound-bite Politician For The Nightly News.

We May Not Be Able To Stop Evil In The World, But How We Treat One Another Is Entirely Up To Us.