Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.

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.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

I can't write what I don't believe in.

He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)

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