Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS move inward - it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.