Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. less than 1 minute read
Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home. less than 1 minute read
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. less than 1 minute read
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. less than 1 minute read
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It’s like a fight-or-flight thing. less than 1 minute read
At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger. less than 1 minute read
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. less than 1 minute read
