The revelation of his early travels in America had been that, despite the racial hatreds of the time, some people just treated him as a human being, like the little white boy who had seen him sitting hungry in a freight car and had brought him a box of fried chicken to eat.
If we share the food at our family table with abundance and joy, we should also take the time to see those who are not at our "small" family table, but who are silently sitting hungry at our "large" family table.
So I was sitting there hungry and thirsty and listening to some of the best content I've heard in a long while and I was thinking if a permanent ban from the conference was worth it if I could just sneakily pull out my video camera and get a clip of Jay telling Kevin what he could go do to himself.
Or, put another way, we could have pensioners sitting alone and hungry in their $400,000 homes.
This brief but excellently packaged story demands to be gobbled up in one hungry sitting.
The couple are forced at times to carry their traumatised children across fields and through battle-ruined buildings and at one point have to run for cover when they find themselves in the middle of fighting, before eventually winding up, dirty and frightened and hungry, sitting around a fire in a refugee camp.
I clicked the laser pointer in my right hand and aimed the dot at the toe of my right shoe, then swept it gradually across the parking lot, picking out small stones and bits of trash before it reached Jared, sitting there still hungry on the bench.
I devoured Things I Like About America in one sitting, and, hungry for more, went to my bookshelves for Denis Johnson's Angels – a novel that captures that windswept, Hopper-esque America better than any other I know.
This is street food paradise with both pavements packed with hawkers cooking over blazing woks, cauldrons bubbling away, and hungry diners sitting on metal stools ordering different dishes from each stall.
"We are really happy to have the foreigners here," said Mrs. Gago as she sold grilled meat from a broken building, her hungry children sitting around her. "The foreigners have made everything safe.
Danto gives a grand description of Tiepolo's "delicious drawing at the Morgan of a group of 17 (by my count) Punchinellos preparing a meal of gnocchi and parmesan cheese for a hungry Punchinello sitting disconsolately on his hat, looking as if dinner will never come".
