The Hunger for Truth and Beauty

The author is very much alive in my department, says Robert Fagan of Claremont McKenna. Kids don't want to hear about the past until you teach them and tell them that they're getting something,. Maya Angelou: The poetry you read has been written for you, black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. Literature, art, is like salvation. It doesn't come to the world. It comes to you. We know nothing about ourselves in the present, but the past knows a lot because it's already gone.

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