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It isn't enough to say we "need" the humanities because we ARE the humanities. They are gifts to us from our predecessors, ancestors, and contemporaries. They represent the imagination, [the] innovative, and ask us to think deeply—as the greatest philosophers and artists have always asked us for the last 2,500 years—about our experience, and to think beyond the various intellectually lazy forms of ideology circulating in America today.

 Charles Johnson
MacArthur Fellow and National Book Award winner (Middle Passage)
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Boston Review Publishes 'Bedtime Story' by MacArthur Genius Charles Johnson

By Charles Johnson
Boston Review
January 04, 2011
Johnson originally wrote "Guinea Pig" for Humanities Washington's 2009 Bedtime Stories event.
Read the original story
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