The Use Of Language Is

Whoever's Reading This, If Anyone Is Reading It: Does It Matter That Our Old Selves Are Lost To Us As Surely As The Past Is Lost, Or Is It Enough To Know Yes We Lived Then, And We Are Living Now, And The Connection Must Be There? Like A River Hundreds Of Miles Long Exists Both At Its Source And At Its Mouth, Simultaneously?

Writing Is A Consequence Of Having Been 'haunted' By Material. Why This Is, No One Knows.

To Be Knocked Out Doesn't Mean What It Seems. A Boxer Does Not Have To Get Up.

Read Widely, And Without Apology. Read What You Want To Read, Not What Someone Tells You You Should Read.

Yes, 'black Girl/white Girl' Might Be Described As A 'coming-of-age' Novel, At Least For The Survivor Genna. It Is Also Intended As A Comment On Race Relations In America More Generally: We Are 'roommates' With One Another, But How Well Do We Know One Another?