When Someone Who's Always Been

I Knew Barack Obama, Absolutely. And I Knew Him Probably As Well As Thousands Of Other Chicagoans.

Injustice Anywhere Is An Assault On All Of Us. That Means That We All Can Get Busy.

We All Want To Believe This American Pastoral, But There's More To It. We Have To Be Willing To Exile Ourselves From The Fantasies And The Mythology That We Create Around Ourselves, Or We're Doomed To Kind Of Innocently Blunder Into Every Country In The World And Murder People.

Art And Activism Can Be Symbiotic. They Don't Have To Be, Of Course; They Can Also Be Contradictory.

To Be A Human Being Is To Suffer. But It's The Unnecessary Suffering, It's The Suffering That We Visit Upon One Another, That Really Should Be Stopped.