Every major African-American writer of the twentieth century, at least until your lifetime, when black writers in this country are now born and raised in cities, in California or Minneapolis or New York or and in modern Atlanta and they come from all the same places other Americas do.

二十世纪的每一个主流的非裔美籍作家,至少到你们这一辈子所能接触到的,这个国家的黑人作家,现在,都生于城市长于城市,在加州,明尼阿波利斯市或者纽约市,或者现代亚特兰大,他们从和其他美国人来自同一个地方

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.

现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选