Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled “file and forget,” and I can neither file nor forget. - Ralph Ellison

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

Let's not play these kids cheap; let's find out what they have that is a strength. What do they have that you can approach and build a bridge upon? Education is all a matter of building bridges, it seems to me.

Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.