I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

(a womanist) 3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.