It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.

It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.