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Child Psychologists Have Demonstrated That Our Minds Are Actually Constructed By These Thousands Of Tiny Interactions During The First Few Years Of Life. We Aren't Just What We're Taught. It's What We Experience During Those Early Years - A Smile Here, A Jarring Sound There - That Creates The Pathways And Connections Of The Brain. We Put Our Kids To Fifteen Years Of Quick-cut Advertising, Passive Television Watching, And Sadistic Video Games, And We Expect To See Emerge A New Generation Of Calm, Compassionate, And Engaged Human Beings?

I Didn't Run Into Racism Until We Moved To Nassau When I Was Ten And A Half, But It Was Vastly Different From The Kind Of Horrendous Oppression That Black People In Miami Were Under When I Moved There At 15. I Found Florida An Antihuman Place.

When You Walk With Someone, Something Unspoken Happens. Either You Match Their Pace Or They Match Yours.

Marriage Is No Way Of Life For The Weak, The Selfish, Or The Insecure.

As I Entered This World, I Would Leave Behind The Nurturing Of My Family And My Home, But In Another Sense I Would Take Their Protection With Me. The Lessons I Had Learned, The Feelings Of Groundedness And Belonging That Have Been Woven Into My Character There, Would Be My Companions On The Journey.