My Responsibility To Myself, My Neighbors, My

I Try To Live [the Golden Rule] And I Certainly Expect It Of Some Particular Others. But I'll Be Damned If I Want Most Folk Out There To Do Unto Me What They Do Unto Themselves.

An Artist Represents An Oppressed People And Makes Revolution Irresistible.

People Have To Be Given Permission To Write, And They Have To Be Given Space To Breathe And Stumble. They Have To Be Given Time To Develop And To Reveal What They Can Do.

Our Lives Preserved. How It Was; And How It Be. Passing It Along In The Relay. That Is What I Work To Do: To Produce Stories That Save Our Lives.

It's A Dismally Lonely Business, Writing.