That is a common mistake. The truth does not depend on what you read.
Subtle people. Two steps ahead.
She noticed the most important thing of all, which is the dance lesson within the performance.
One of the advantages of loving women, of being loved by women: they will always do things far beyond the call of duty
Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a little condescension; with low expectation of the other’s rationality; with the knowledge that the...
Not everyone wants this conventional little life you’re rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it’s time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flame...
No matter what Jody did, she said nothing. She had learned how to talk some and leave some. She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels. Som...
Most Saturdays, as my own middle passage approached, I accompanied my mother to a protest march of one kind or another, against South Africa, against the government, against nuclear bombs, against rac...
Maybe I have thought intellect more important than faith. And now it seems this final temptation has been put in front of me.
It’s hard to keep apocalypse consistently in mind, especially if you want to get out of bed in the morning.
It was the spirit of the times: we applied high theory to shampoo ads, philosophy to NWA videos.
It is a long walk to table twelve. Not in distance, it is only twenty metres in distance, but it is a long walk through the thick smells and the loud voices and the demands; through the cries of Engli...
Involved is neither good nor bad. It is just a consequence of living, a consequence of occupation and immigration, of empires and expansion, of living in each other's pockets... one becomes involved a...
I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.
I don't remember the song she sang – I never really liked her songs – but standing in the empty concert hall, listening to her sing without backing music, with no support of any kind, I found that the...
I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.
I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.
How long that song seemed—longer than life.
He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him until he justified the amount they wanted him.