I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.