He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Pertrakis.I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.
We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not...
Too many grown-ups tell kids to follow their dreamslike that's going to get them somewhereAuntie Laurie says follow your nightmares insteadcuz when you figure out what's eating you aliveyou can slay i...
You're the one who doesn't understand, I've been standing on the edge with you for years.
You'd be shocked at how many adults are already dead inside, walking around with no clue, waiting for a heart attack or cancer to finish the job. When people don't express themselves, they die one pie...
Well... It might be a little broken.''A little broken is still broken,' I pointed out.'But fixable.
This note about anatomyfrom me to youis for the remembering thatafter you speakafter you shoutyour open mouthwill breathe in the lightfor which you've hungeredand your backbone will unfurl,until you c...
They mean hot like 'I'm too good for you I got my own money don't be frontin' me.' You're more like 'Be my boyfriend I'll make you cookies come meet my dad ' know what I mean
She laid land mines in my skill that detonated weeks later.
Shame, turned inside out, is rage.
Nothing chases away the sand or the memories engraved on the back of my eyelids. They play on a continuous loop, with smells and sound and sorrow.
Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty r...
Me: All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.
It's amazing any thing survives.
It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.
It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This is what it would be like when I had my own shop, or when I traveled abroad. I wou...
If you touch me, I’ll cram your nose into your brain with the heel of my hand.
I'm feeling pretty damn good for a change.
I need to study David Petrakis.