The Only Black People You Found Were

We're All Capable Of Climbing So Much Higher Than We Usually Permit Ourselves To Suppose.

I'm A 48-year-old Writer Who Can Remember Being A 10-year-old Writer And Who Expects Someday To Be An 80-year-old Writer. I'm Also Comfortably Asocial -- A Hermit In The Middle Of Los Angeles -- A Pessimist If I'm Not Careful, A Feminist, A Black, A Former Baptist, An Oil-and-water Combination Of Ambition, Laziness, Insecurity, Certainty, And Drive.

Beware At War Or At Peace, More People Die Of Unenlightened Self-interest Than Of Any Other Disease

Dad Decided Not To Vote For Donner After All. He Didn't Vote For Anyone. He Said Politicians Turned His Stomach.

Humans Persecute Their Different Ones, Yet They Need Them To Give Themselves Definition And Status.