At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.

My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.

Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.