Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.

it is amazing how all our paths of rebellion tend to lead us straight back home.

I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me, and what excites me I write about. Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.

Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.

...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings.

...I have wanted to believe people could make their dreams come truethat problems could be solved. However, this is a national illness. As Americans, we believe all problems can be solved, that all questions have answers.

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.