I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.

in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.