I Didn't Know Then What

Loss Takes Up Inside Of Everything Sooner Or Later And Eats Right Through It.

The Only Way I Have Ever Understood, Broken Free, Emerged, Healed, Forgiven, Flourished, And Grown Powerful Is By Asking The Hardest Questions And Then Living Into The Answers Through Opening Up To My Own Terror And Transmuting It Into Creativity. I Have Gotten Nowhere By Retreating Into Hand-me-down Sureties Or Resisting The Tensions That Truth Ignited.

I Believe In The Goodness Of Imagination.

I Said, "if I Was A Negro Girl-" He Placed His Fingers Across My Lips So I Tasted His Saltiness. "we Can't Think Of Changing Our Skin," He Said. "change The World-that's How We Gotta Think."

You Can Go Other Places, All Right - You Can Live On The Other Side Of The World, But You Can't Ever Leave Home