Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.