Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.

How shall man measure Progress there where the dark-faced Josie lies? How many heartfuls of sorrow s hall balance a bushel of wheat? How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how...

Just as some historians seemed more shocked that the author of the Declaration of Independence had sex with Sally Hemmings than by the fact that he owned her, Clinton received far more censure for his...

The past is of value only as it aids in understanding the present; and an understanding of the facts of the problem — a magnanimous understanding by both races — is the first step toward...

Yessir, some things is sin ’cause God says so. Some things is sin ’cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.

I guess I’d rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin’ one who claims he loves me.

I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room.