Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

Now people like Susan Sarandon are noticing that people of color live this way?! This is the way I've always lived! What's happened is that it has now reached a level of national discourse where it's on the table. But they've never minded that we were treated like this off-stage.

...sometimes a start is all we ever get.

It's never the changes we want that change everything.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

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.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.