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...convince America that we struggle too, to form the master narratives of people who don't look like us. Now some of our older sisters have paved the way for us. In fact, since the release of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who've considered suicide when the rainbow is enough, Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Michelle Wallace's Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, there's been an explosion of literature telling the world about black women's problems. I know about it. I'll assume that you know about...
Tracy Flick kneels over her daisy-decorated sheets (which go perfectly with the rainbow-laden inspirational posters on her room walls), hands clasped together earnestly, praying--desperately pleading--for God to tamper with the minds of her high school classmates. It's a fitting conclusion to a vehemently ferocious, unfailingly smug and of course, utterly merciless campaign. Tracy Flick is the poster child for ambition...
Mary Jo Salter's poems at first seem to be simple description. She paints objects for us: the French countryside, a child's handmade magnet, a rainbow, a movie. Pretty collections of words, aesthetically pleasing. You seem to just slip over them, letting the images slide in and out of the brain, remaining only that, images...
Mary Jo Salter's poems at first seem to be simple description. She paints objects for us: the French countryside, a child's handmade magnet, a rainbow, a movie. Pretty collections of words, aesthetically pleasing. You seem to just slip over them, letting the images slide in and out of the brain, remaining only that, images...
Richard Dawkins is Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. His latest book is Unweaving the Rainbow (Houghton Mifflin). This essay was adapted from his introduction to Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine (Oxford University Press...