How reading can transform your life (w/ Reginald Dwayne Betts)

How to Be a Better Human by TED

Sep 28, 202643:46Education

“We have tried to create a system devoid of beauty, and it has failed. We have never tried to create a system that is replete with beauty and ask us what it might do.” Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, a lawyer, and a pri...

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