Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.