Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox... →
Michael Eric Dyson
When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The... →
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity... →
There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the... →
I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the last half... →
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must... →
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to... →
Janine di Giovanni
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too... →
Alice Morse Earle
We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or... →
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept... →
Steve Earle