...and yet I am what they think I am.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.