I didn’t know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
Category Archive: 1952
Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.
It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors – especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists – deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.
Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn’t changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can’t imagine something that has never existed before, it’s impossible.
I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure.