I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.

We have to rise up and make sure that our voices are heard and that begins tomorrow.

[Wherever he went, the voices followed. In the batting cage, in the dugout, in the batter's box, the relentless yapping of the Reds' coaches echoed in Adam Dunn's head.] I'm standing at the plate thinking, Where are my hands? Where's this, where's that? ... Before I know it, the pitch is there and I'm completely out of rhythm.

Being able to “think outside the box” presupposes you were able to think in it

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.

Public radio has always been so powerless.