Aug 11, 2026
“You learn so many things in the absence of speech that you wouldn’t have known, if words had filled the space.” — Jason Arday | Quote of the Day
Jason Arday, the British sociologist who did not speak until he was 11 and could not read or write until he was 18, then became the youngest Black professor in Cambridge's history, reflects on the hidden gifts of silence — words he now lives by, on the day his memoir reaches American readers.