Martin Luther King Was Only An Activist

What We Need Is A Gigantic, Messy Community Conversation About What Is Teaching And Learning For The 21st Century. We Need To Engage Communities.

I Always Say Your Body Is The Temple Of Your Spirit, Why Not Decorate It? My Kids Say, No, No, Your Body Is The Temple Of Your Spirit, Keep It Clean. I'm Covered In Tattoos And I Get A Tattoo Every Time I Write A Book. I Get The Tattoo From The Book.

Let's Look At Two Things Real Quickly: The Civil Rights Movement In Mississippi In The Sixties And The Arab Spring Starting In Tunisia And Cairo. What They Had In Common Was People Who Were Told, And Who Believed Inside Themselves, That They Were A Certain Way, And The Society At Large Believed It.

This 1965. We Went To Trial On Our City. We Were Obviously Borrowing Tactics And Strategy From The Black Freedom Movement, And We Were Echoing Their Approach To Things.

I Don't Think Of Myself As A Particularly Nostalgic Person.