God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.
I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.
Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.
The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.
I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.
When I was a kid, some of the guys would try to get me to hate white people for what they've been doing to Negroes, and for a while I tried real hard. But every time I got to hating them, some white guy would come along and mess the whole thing up.
Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much