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

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

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

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.