Community Quote by Anne Waldman

As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that…

— Tracy Chapman

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

— Alexander Chee

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by progress. They became traveling salesmen of metaphors.

— Anatole Broyard

One thing I got from my parents was that they talked about politics all the time. They weren't educated or academic but they were…

— Claire Fox

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our…

— Zach Galifianakis

“What Homer could never have foreseen is the double idiocy into which we now educate our children. We have what look like our equivalent…

— Anthony M. Esolen

I grew up around a mix of a lot of people, so I got a lot of different perspectives. As a kid, I appreciated…

— Jermaine Fowler

It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people…

— Sonia Gandhi

The politics of language and the politics of writing really got to me. I've heard this phrase more than once now: this idea of…

— Truong Tran

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and…

— Al Franken

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

— Joseph Stiglitz

“I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores and social pressures. My grandparents embodied one type: old-fashioned, quietly…

— J.D. Vance