East St. Louis-which The Local Press Refers

I Wrote The First Book, And I Thought People Would Say: 'separate And Unequal Schools In The City Of Boston? I Didn't Know That. Let's Go Out And Fix It.'

The Rich...should Beg The Poor To Forgive Us For The Bread We Bring Them. Healthy People Sometimes Feel They Need To Beg Forgiveness Too, Although There Is No Reason Why. Maybe We Simply Ask Forgiveness For Not Being Born Where These Poor Women Have Been Born, Knowing That If We Lived Here Too, Our Fate Might Well Have Been The Same.

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.

I Do Get Scared About The Physical Danger From Drug Dealers. But It's Not In The Same League As The Danger I Feel Eating An $80 Lunch With My Privileged Friends To Discuss Hunger And Poverty. That's When My Soul Feels Imperiled.

A Culture In Which Guilt Is Automatically Assumed To Be Neurotic And Unhealthy Has Devised A Remarkably Clever Way Of Protecting Its Self-interest.