I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

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 feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

In all your getting, get understanding.

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.