Quote of the Day (Paul Laurence Dunbar)

“We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.”—Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask”
(With Barack Obama’s painfully personal and candid speech on race last week, let’s all hope that that “mask” comes one step closer to being discarded once and for all.)