May 21, 2010

Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward P. Jones told stories of learning about the gifts of art and creativity to move humankind during this year’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences commencement on May 21. "We are born with so few tools to make our little shacks of life, and we are born with even less knowledge about how to use those tools,” said Jones during the ceremony on Healy Lawn. “We write, we sculpt, we sing, we play the banjo in the dark." Once the tools to get us through are discovered, "we create because we cannot help ourselves," even when there is no chance of reward or fame.