“I advance it, therefore, as a suspicion only that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.” — Thomas Jefferson In his concurrence on Students For Fair Admissions, Justice Clarence Thomas…

The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life. — Ralph Ellison This article is not one I had planned to write, but I think the music I have playing in the background sets the mood. Music from my teen…

Books were only one type of receptacle where a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. …

“It will not be too strong to say that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue.” — Federalist 68 Congresswoman Boebert loves being in the news. She is what we call an attention addict. She craves being in front…

The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America, particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded their…

“After coming into contact with a religious man, I always feel I must wash my hands” — Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) I believe in God. But I hate religion. After reading the above statement, I would understand any assumption on your part leading you to think I’m either atheist or agnostic…

“Nothing appeared to make my poor mistress — after her turning toward the downward pat — more angry, than seeing me, seated in some nook or corner, quietly reading a book or a newspaper. I have her rush at me, with the utmost fury, something of the wrath and consternation…

Avarice, or the desire for gain, is a universal passion that operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons — David Hume May you live in interesting times, often cited and attributed to the Chinese. Well, it is an interesting aphorism but not of Chinese origin. …

For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it — Amanda Gorman I have never seemed to connect with poetry as a form of writing. In conversations with people, they often told me of a poem that impacted…