As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.

The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

American workers need a common-sense plan to make small businesses and entrepreneurs competitive again - not simply more government spending.