The boundaries we choose | Leonard Pitts | TEDxCoconutGrove

Leonard Pitts, Jr. challenges us to consider how we identify ourselves and each other and how those identifiers limit our depth of understanding. Most of these identifiers are not ones we choose and may stand in the way of true human connection.

In a career spanning more than 35 years, Leonard Pitts, Jr. has been a columnist, a college professor, a radio producer and a lecturer. But if you ask him to define himself, he will invariably choose one word. He is a writer, period, author of one of the most popular newspaper columns in the country and of a series of critically-acclaimed books, including his latest, a novel called Freeman. And his lifelong devotion to the art and craft of words has yielded stellar results, chief among them the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

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