"The past is always present in our stories, shaping the way we see the future."

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

I'm not afraid to speak my mind because I know that's who I am.