Lik: "I didn't really have any big dreams, other than i thought i was going to get paid for playing basket ball somewhere" Lik: "Even my sense of portland is really my optic so to imagine. I mean, i had never been to new york at that time." 'i could not have imagined myself being a professor,' she says.'There was no more dream.'
Mitchell S. Jackson is a journalist and author. His profile of Ahmaud Arbery, ”Twelve Minutes and a Life,” won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
”What is 'great'? 'Great' isn’t really sales, right? No one cares what James Baldwin sold. So: Are you doing the important work?”
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