I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.
As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.