To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

Redemption is invented by the sinner.

But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.