Sometimes he even requests them by asking a question that winkingly goes along with my subtle implication that Studs and I are buddies: "How's your boy Studs?" And though my Studs stories are economically picked from very occasional meetings, they are true nevertheless.
Of course, when I read Dostoyevsky, Rousseau, and Plato, I knew that I was also reading books that arose from experiences utterly alien to mine — but the czar, the king, and the jury faced in those books were equally alien to me, whereas, when it came to black American life, my own implication in the conflict was inescapable.
I've had U.S. border patrol agents, immigration agents, ticket agents -- even Expedia, for God's sake -- inquire about my name and, by implication, my possible links to a religion, which in their mind is linked to fanaticism, terrorism and plenty of other unpleasant "isms".
While I could see that my skin colour was different to that of my peers, the implications of my blackness weren't something I was acutely aware of until I entered my teens.
But I would never be the same in any shape or form, and in many ways my journey through Hell and ugliness, and its implication on my life and my perception, had only just begun to unfold and integrate.
Conclusions and Policy Implications My objective today has been to review the evidence on the link between monetary policy in the early part of the past decade and the rapid rise in house prices that occurred at roughly the same time.
They might carry the implication, My book is scarier than yours, or more high-minded.
In my opinion, the implication is that God gave woman her beauty, but man has not yet learned how to receive and care for this gift.
I fear my condition and its implications for my life.
I was working on my senior thesis, an 80-page dissertation about 'The Aeneid' in translation, and I was able to share with him many of my findings regarding the philosophical implications of my project and also my feelings about the work itself.
