"Just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." --Toni Morrison
Trilling follow-ups
Both Scott Esposito, at Conversational Reading, and Dan Green, at The Reading Experience, have referenced my Lionel Trilling post in the past couple of days. If you're interested, go check out what they have to say.