from my forthcoming memoir, Principles of Retail.
Users shouldn’t deal and dealers shouldn’t use Somebody other than me must have said Reading is a finer world within the world. Presumably an unpunished vice, my relationship to literature has at times smacked of self abuse. So much so I’ve been called promiscuously well read. It is a solitary past time, during which time you aren’t […]
Maxims
Premise: Books Are Weapons recognizes the revolutionary effect literacy can have on reclaiming our independence from the confines of mediocrity. Literacy enables the self-determination necessary to enjoying the basic human rights. Literacy, bring a tool for coming to terms with one’s otherness, effects a change of consciousness more significantly than any other stimulant to the mind. […]
Paul Robeson’s thoughts on the Morris Jumel Mansion.
“I am an American. From my window I gaze out upon a scene that reminds me how deep-going are the roots of my people in this land. Across the street, carefully preserved as an historic site, is a colonial mansion that served as a headquarters for General George Washington in 1776, during desperate and losing […]
