“I asked for things that no one can really promise anyone. I wanted to see around the corner of the universe.” —Amy Lin apple.co/3Ucx7BM

Rick Wilson The Supreme Court should be ashamed for even deciding to hear this case.

Rick Wilson Sotomayor should have asked Trumps attorney..

“If Biden orders the execution of conservative SCOTUS justices because he doesn't believe they would obey the constitution would that be an official act?”

“We live in a world that is unbelievably confusing and contentious and mysterious, and it’s a high order to get things right. You have to proceed fearlessly. Otherwise, you’re not going to have any value to the reader of the greater world.” —David Remnick apple.co/3PT9tZD

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“I am not optimistic. I have been Black in the United States too long to be optimistic. I just don’t think that some of the worst is going to happen.” —Nell Irvin Painter apple.co/3vVXUdx

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“I don’t worry about things I can’t change.” —Nell Irvin Painter apple.co/3vVXUdx

“Historians have been telling you about white supremacy. It is a longstanding ideology in this country.” —Nell Irvin Painter apple.co/3vVXUdx

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“I have few book prizes. When I was the age of young and up-and-coming historians, book prizes were not being given to black women. By the time black women are getting prizes, they are going to younger artists and writers.” —Nell Irvin Painter apple.co/3vVXUdx

“Our business changed a lot. In the old style of magazines, the subscriptions were very cheap so advertisers would reach as many people as possible. The nature of advertising has changed & it’s completely dominated by Google and Facebook.” —David Remnick apple.co/3PT9tZD

“In Newark, NJ, there’s black power and lots of black people, including old black women who are powerful people. And they don’t get ignored or swept under the rug. That has not been my experience through much of my life.” —Nell Irvin Painter apple.co/3vVXUdx

Writer Amy Lin deconstructs grief in her new memoir ‘Here After,’ a beautifully visceral and emotionally intimate depiction of young widowhood. She joins to discuss the science of grief and how she coped in the wake of her inexplicable loss. apple.co/3Ucx7BM

“It was challenging in that I knew that I needed to be better at it, but I also knew the way to be better at it was to do it. If I were teaching in art school, I would say make the art only you can make and make a lot of it.” —Nell Irvin Painter apple.co/3vVXUdx

“The publishing world right now, people are tearing their hair. It's terrible—all this consolidation. In the good old days, an editor could foster a writer, even though the writer was not selling out & wait until that writer flourished.”—Nell Irvin Painter apple.co/3vVXUdx

“Even though I never lived in the South, I lived in a racist country in which race was the thing that bore down on me the most. And I used it in ways I didn’t realize until I got to Ghana to orient myself in humanity.” (1/2)—Nell Irvin Painter apple.co/3vVXUdx

“All that was withdrawn in Ghana because everybody was black. That’s where I first started really seeing issues of development and economics and the tensions in your ideals and the real world.” (2/2)—Nell Irvin Painter apple.co/3vVXUdx

Nell Irvin Painter talks about the book The History of White People: “That was such a hard book for people to deal with. People would ask me, ‘Are you writing it as a black person?’ I would say, ‘I’m writing it as a historian.’” apple.co/3vVXUdx

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