You Are Horror And Beauty In Rare

I'm A Pessimist If I'm Not Careful, A Feminist, A Black,...an Oil-and-water Combination Of Ambition, Laziness, Insecurity, Certainty, And Drive.

I Think People Really Need To Think What It's Like To Have All Of Society Arrayed Against You.

Nothing. It Just Finds You A Lot More Attractive Than It Does Most Humans. What Can You Do With A Beautiful Woman That You Can’t Do With An Ugly One? Nothing. It’s Just A Matter Of Preference.

I'm A Fifty-three-year-old Writer Who Can Remember Being A Ten-year-old Writer And Who Expects Someday To Be An Eighty-year-old Writer.

The Child In Each Of Us Knows Paradise. Paradise Is Home. Home As It Was Or Home As It Should Have Been. Paradise Is One's Own Place, One's Own People, One's Own World, Knowing And Known, Perhaps Even Loving And Loved. Yet Every Child Is Cast From Paradise- Into Growth And New Community, Into Vast, Ongoing Change.