Say a white boy takes a wrong turn and comes to my hood,” he once said. “Now he’s in the minority––nobody wants him there, unless it’s to rob his ass––and more than anything he has...

When I interviewed at Yale, the admissions committee asked me why they should let me into the program. I looked at them unblinking and said, ‘Because I’m going to change the world some day. And...

But Anja. I hear Anja’s voice. Maybe I am insane. I hear her crying. I see her alone in the trees. I remember being alone and humiliated. I remember, too, the fat little boy hiding...