""I’m available to any and every adventure of the human breath.”"

"She would not break her discipline to comfort herself in a shallow way. Would no more break discipline with her Self …"

"Then M’Dear Sophie always said, “Find meaning where you’re put, Vee.” So she exhaled deeply and tried to relax and st…"

"It was Grandma Dorothy who taught me critical theory, who steeped me in the tradition of Afrocentric aesthetic regula…"

"But in the storytelling arenas, from kitchen tales to outdoor university anecdotes, "women's morality" was much more …"

"I'm attempting to blueprint for myself the merger of these two camps: the political and the spiritual. The possibilit…"

"Got to give it all up, the pain, the hurt, the anger and make room for lovely things to rush in and fill you full."

"Grandma Dorothy, in an effort to encourage our minds to leap, would tell us, "Of course we know how to walk on the wa…"

"Winter 1979. We are now in the fourth year of the last quarter of the twentieth century. And the questions that face …"

"Then the silence. A whole generation silent"