Each Person Has A Literature Inside Them.

Suddenly In High School, I'm In A Predominantly Jewish Atmosphere. Jewish People Were My Gate To White America.

Many People Are Afraid To Talk About Race Because It's So Emotionally Loaded. We Don't Have The Vocabulary To Talk About It. Every Day, Our Vocabulary Seems More And More Inadequate.

I Love Studying How People Are. Not Just What They're Saying, But How They Are, What They're Doing.

I Am Not Myself; I Am The Potential Of Myself.

When I Was A Kid, My Grandfather Said That "if You Say A Word Often Enough, It Becomes You." Thinking Of That Later In Life Gave Me This Idea That I Could Try To Become America By Learning The Words Of People From Many Aspects Of The Country.