I'm tired of the rules," I say.

Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some notes from the Bible study. Just writing down all the things I love about Jesus.

Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.

President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.