Most people think of death as the end, when in fact, death can be the beginning.
I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
Troubled is a polite word for what I am.
You know there are two kinds of tears. Tears for those who leave you and tears for those who you never let go. And I won't say goodbye to you Xena, 'cause we'll be together again one day.
It's not the gentle part I have a problem with, it's the dull, stupid part.
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.