The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.