I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age he wanted to be an Episcopal priest because he so admired his priest a black man from someplace called Haiti.
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and...
Well certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is...
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They...
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at...
But you see our society is still trapped in this binary black/white logic...
I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately...
My mom God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me...
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we...
The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a...
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and...
The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a...
Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does...
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the...
If there is anything I would do differently in my life it is that I would...
What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
In a spiritually sensitive culture then it might well be that age is...
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem...
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.