Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.
Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.
Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.
Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.