Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.

I'm startled or at least taken aback when people walk up to me and without being questioned inform me that they are Christians. My first response is the question "Already?" It seems to me that becoming a Christian is a lifelong endeavor.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being unaware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of.

With time and a kindly librarian, any unskilled person can learn how to build a replica of the Taj Mahal.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.