The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War. – W. E. B. Du Bois
I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day its amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky. – Karen Thompson Walker
