engaged person

“Whether in a plot in a yard or pots in a window, every politically engaged person should have a garden,” says my friend Camille Dungy, who just published a book of essays called “Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden.”

It would be an understatement to say that those years were quite an exhilarating time to be a young black politically engaged person in America.

It didn’t matter that Walker was not a political figure or even a politically engaged person.

“I would say he is a serious but engaged person: He looks you squarely in the eye, he listens to you intently and he wants to make sure he understands what you’re asking before he responds.”

Skepticism about the scientific consensus, Perry told the media in 2017, is a sign of a “wise, intellectually engaged person.”