Gerald Lucas

“Many harebrained interpretations were also widely available, especially in weekly newspapers.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“White supremacists blame non-White people for the struggles of White people when any objective analysis of their plight primarily implicates the rich White Trumps they support.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“THIS BOOK IS ultimately about the basic struggle we’re all in, the struggle to be fully human and to see that others are fully human.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“In the seventies, Walter and I wrote a tune, “Deacon Blues,” that toyed with the cliché of the jazz musician as antihero. It was kind of a takeoff on that old essay by Norman Mailer, “The White Negro,” not to mention our lives up to that point.”
― Donald Fagen, Eminent Hipsters