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Dr. Bernard Lafayette

“When people show you their worst side, the best response you can have is to find a way to bring the best out of them. Not the worst. So that’s...

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Joel Meyerowitz

Legendary photographer Joel Meyerowitz has been capturing life itself since 1962. Whether on the streets of New York City, the sand dunes of Cape...

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Kevin Abstract

“I knew people connected with bravery. I forced myself to be myself in music because I knew that all the artists I loved were fully themselves, and...

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Songs for You

After a week like this one, we decided to put a pause on talking for today. Instead, a mixtape. Songs for you and yours, chosen by our Talk Easy team...

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Kathrine Switzer

“People always ask me, what has running given you? And I say, it’s given me my career and my job and my husband, the great love of my life. And...

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Ts Madison

“There’s nothing like liberation. Life can have you bound and chained to your past. It can have you bound and chained to rules. It can have you...

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Five Years

This Sunday Talk Easy turns five years old! To mark the anniversary, we’re revisiting some of our favorite passages from the past 220 episodes: Errol...

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Nathaniel Rich

“The conservation of nature means the conservation of our identity: the parts of us that are beautiful and free and sacred, those we want to...

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Anne Lamott

“The answer to where do we start – whether it’s getting sober or starting a new book or a new relationship or getting over one – you start where you...

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Kimberly Drew

“One of the greatest successes of this book is the vast kind of spectrum of not only people who are contributing, but the ways they’re...

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J Wortham

“The book was a huge part of wanting to push myself into the art world more. I knew how I felt in my body when I would listen to a Janelle Monáe...

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