And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.