...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.

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

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

I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.

It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.

I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break.

...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.