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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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Amanda Seyfried

“I think it’s important to appreciate where I am… I do not have any regrets. I’m worth a lot to myself. Life is long, but...

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Winnie Byanyima

“Through being part of these struggles of injustice, I’ve learned to find my place. To know that I’m just one person with a lifespan that’s so...

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Glynn Turman

“The characteristics of the characters that I play, I try to tap into that human part of them. That’s what we have in common. Human being...

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Brittany Packnett Cunningham

“I’m trying to build a world where a black girl can be more than a symbol. Where a black woman can be more than a depository for...

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Johnny Mathis

“I love what I’m doing. I try to find people who like what they’re doing, and I don’t expect anything other than friendship from my...

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George Saunders

“The universe actually isn’t designed to protect you at all. It really isn’t. We’re getting an international reminder of that in spades...

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Dr. Ashish Jha

“We need a global strategy, and this is one of the crazy things about the isolationist policies of the last administration. This idea of America...

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Julián Castro

“I think we’re going to prosper together when we work to make changes in this democracy– to unburden our children from everything that has held...

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Janaya Future Khan

“We have been beaten down. We have been told to shrink. Why? In our society we are told we are worthless; we are only as useful as what we can...

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The AIDS Memorial

In collaboration with The AIDS Memorial, we present this special episode of Talk Easy. Five stories of love, loss, and remembrance from those...

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