He made it clear that his greatest satisfaction in writing "Native Son" came not from entering a protest against racism and injustice but from proving to himself (he didn't care, he said, what others thought) that he was indeed a maker of literature in the tradition of Poe, Hawthorne, and James.
One such example occurred on Tuesday afternoon, when members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a fundamentalist splinter group from Kansas, entered a designated protest zone near the convention center.
"I entered as a protest, really," he says.
By the time the protests entered a third workweek on Monday, all of the network morning news shows were discussing them.
On the day Rachel Corrie died, she and other activists had entered a closed military zone to protest the demolition policy.
America has entered a new political era of protest and patriotism in a great and powerful tradition.
The protests, which entered a seventh day on Wednesday, have delayed energy firm Cuadrilla's plans to start drilling at the woodland site.
But recently and especially since Day X3, the tone of the protest movement has entered a new, darker and much more serious phase.
Dozens of people were killed, including ten policemen, and hundreds injured as anti-government protests in Ukraine entered a new, dangerous phase.
I am ethnically Armenian but not all Armenians living here support the Euromaidan protests because Armenia recently entered a customs union with Russia.
