On Matters Of Race, On

There Are A Lot Of People Who Know Me Who Can't Understand For The Life Of Them Why I Would Got To Work On Something As Unserious As Baseball. If They Only Knew.

This Is Not The First Time In My Life Where You Know Going Into A Job That You're Going To Hear In Stereo What Was Wrong With What You Did.

Teaching Is An Instinctual Art, Mindful Of Potential, Craving Of Realizations, A Pausing, Seamless Process, Where One Rehearses Constantly While Acting, Sits As A Spectator At A Play One Directs, Engages Every Part In Order To Keep The Choices Open And The Shape Alive For The Student, So That The Student May Enter In, And Begin To Do What The Teacher Has Done: Make Choices.

For Me, Baseball Is The Most Nourishing Game Outside Of Literature. They Both Are Re-tellings Of Human Experience.

On A Good Day, I View The Job [of President] As Directing An Orchestra. On The Dark Days, It Is More Like That Of A Clutch -- Engaging The Engine To Effect Forward Motion, While Taking Greater Friction.