Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

Thoughts can hurt like real pain.

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.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

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