“To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.” ThinkingWantPersonsCharacterMightSubjectsLessonsGapsSneakIdentifyingEmpatheticSneak In Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.” PeopleFirstsPersonsHandsYoungSpeakMouthsArchitectureFirst PersonMicrophonesUtteranceWise People Author:Fred D'Aguiar