My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.
Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.
I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!
I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.
I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.
It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.
My stories are character driven.
There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory. . . everything else you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do.
I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.
To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss. " When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.
The slum is the measure of civilization.