The First Ten, Twelve Or Fifteen Years

If There Are Amazing Graces On This Earth, I Believe That They Are These Good Children Sent To Us By God And Not Yet Soiled By The Knowledge That Their Nation Does Not Love Them.

A Dream Does Not Die On Its Own. A Dream Is Vanquished By The Choices Ordinary People Make About Real Things In Their Own Lives.

The Primary Victims Of Katrina, Those Who Were Given The Least Help By The Government, Those Rescued Last Or Not At All, Were Overwhelmingly People Of Color Largely Hidden From The Mainstream Of Society.

More Money Is Put Into Prisons Than Into Schools. That, In Itself, Is The Description Of A Nation Bent On Suicide. I Mean, What Is More Precious To Us Than Our Own Children? We Are Going To Build A Lot More Prisons If We Do Not Deal With The Schools And Their Inequalities.

We Continue, However, To Write About Important People, Prize-winning People, Blacks Of Grandeur, Women Of Great Fire, Fame Or Wit. We Do Not Write About Ordinary People.