Keep on doing what you're doing.

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

There is so much work left to be done in the world and for me, I am hoping to make the change I can and do the work I need to do through this gift I've been given.

I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world. And I feel like it's our job to put that down on paper, and put it out into the world, so that it can be remembered.

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.