stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I have to tell stories, that stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world

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.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

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.