Twenty years after we had left so fierce and proud, we were all right back where we had started, yoked to each other and the same old drama.

That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth