

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall in love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin --
Find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less... You will be able to go around the world, learning languages, speaking to everybody, because no one can be more human than you or be less human... Remember that.

When Tracy Chapman first burst onto the American music scene back in the late 1980s, I remember my mother ...
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Why This Is Awesome: As I prepare to head off into the den of steel and concrete, I made myself sit back and remember what ...
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Why This Is Awesome: There's an old aphorism that says the personal is political, and I'm inclined to agree ....
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