There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts we wear and the tomatoes we eat. There are unfortunately unfair and inhumane conditions - including literal slavery… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
We forget the conditions - not only in slavery - but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African Americans from economic opportunity. Or we forget today's incarceration rates, and educational and housing discrimination; all of these… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“every choice forecloses on other choices; each step forward leaves a thousand dead possible universes behind you.” — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“The perseverance in this world, despite it all, of things done right. Carefully” — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“would strap you, hands and feet, to a machine, turn a wheel to make you talk. Or even not to, just to watch you… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
![“Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to others. I have been off Twitter lately because I had this sudden sort of feeling of, this man is the president of this club and it's not a club that I want to be in…” quote by Ben H. Winters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ea/ben-h-winters-14454_activist_here-in-america-we-have-a-man-donald-tru_946555.jpg)