Whatever your supposed politics are - left right - if you put it in a human connection most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth....
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is...
I write early in the morning usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
