Drowning People Sometimes Die Fighting Their Rescuers.

...i Can Write My Own Stories And I Can Write Myself In.

I'm A 48-year-old Writer Who Can Remember Being A 10-year-old Writer And Who Expects Someday To Be An 80-year-old Writer. I'm Also Comfortably Asocial -- A Hermit In The Middle Of Los Angeles -- A Pessimist If I'm Not Careful, A Feminist, A Black, A Former Baptist, An Oil-and-water Combination Of Ambition, Laziness, Insecurity, Certainty, And Drive.

Civilization Is To Groups What Intelligence Is To Individuals. It Is A Means Of Combining The Intelligence Of Many To Achieve Ongoing Group Adaptation.

Slavery Was A Long Slow Process Of Dulling.

To Get Along With God, Consider The Consequences Of Your Behavior. Earthseed: The Books Of The Living