You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.
One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.
Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.
Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.
I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.
I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.
I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.
We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so. . . I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.