[Unedited] Jason Reynolds with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Jason Reynolds is the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature of the Library of Congress — and a magnificent source of wisdom for human society as a whole. He’s driven by compassion and the clear-eyed honesty that the young both possess and demand of the rest of us. Ibram X. Kendi chose him to write the YA companion to Stamped from the Beginning. In his person, Jason Reynolds both embodies and inspires innate human powers of fortitude and imagination. Hear him on “breathlaughter”; the libraries in all of our heads; and a stunning working definition of anti-racism: “simply the muscle that says humans are human… I love you, because you remind me more of myself than not.”

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.
0:07.5	Fetzer's new study, what does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.4	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other, and inspires us to take action for the common good.
0:19.0	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:24.0	I'm Christa Tippett, up next my unedited conversation with the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Jason Reynolds.
0:32.0	There is, as always, a shorter produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:41.0	Oh, okay.
0:42.0	Can you hear me now?
0:44.0	Oh, okay.
0:46.0	Okay.
0:48.0	Yeah, so I just said good morning again, and I'm just wondering where you are today.
0:55.0	I am in, good morning, by the way.
0:58.0	I am in Washington, DC, in my house, hold up, waiting for the world to change.
1:12.0	Well, I'm in Minnesota, Minneapolis, and so this has been a place to be.
1:17.0	Absolutely.
1:18.0	For the last couple of weeks.
1:23.0	One thing I want to say to you right now is that I'm just carrying all of my words and my questions with a lot of humility right now.
1:33.0	And I guess what I'd love to invite and understanding that you may have to leave me is that we, with that we this morning,
1:45.0	have the conversation you want to be having or hearing.
1:50.0	And maybe that means questions that people like me in white bodies are not asking.
1:57.0	So I really want to invite you to call me on that or just turn corners.
2:06.0	And I want to say also that as you may or may not recall, we got connected on Twitter by a guy named Dante Stewart, a young man who's a black seminarian and pastor and preacher and really a wonderful writer.
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