To watch your home change in front of you is surprising. But at the same time, going someplace like Mississippi, makes me appreciate even this.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

I think I'd rather have my heart broke than do the breaking. —Lena

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

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

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.