One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We name more and more streets and schools after him but that's almost irrelevant, because what is to be remembered is that strength to love.