I Have Daughters And I

Sociological Prose Is Generally Written Without Images In An Exact Form For An Academic Audience.

The Dead Made This World. We Didn't Make It. They Made The Poetry And The Songs And The Customs.

The World Belongs Primarily To The Dead, And We Only Rent It From Them For A Little While. They Created It, They Wrote Its Literature And Its Songs, And They Are Deeply Invested In How Children Are Treated, Because The Children Are The Ones Who Will Keep It Going. The Idea That Each Of Us Has The Right To Change Everything Is A Deep Insult To Them.

One Out Of Three Black Men Are In The Criminal Justice System In Some Form. Their Despair Is Beginning To Resonate Through The Entire Culture; That Is Why Suburban Children Want Rap Music.

We Spend Our Life Until We’re Twenty Deciding What Parts Of Ourself To Put Into The Bag, And We Spend The Rest Of Our Lives Trying To Get Them Out Again.