If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship.

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.