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

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

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

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

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.

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.