Occupation: Novelist Birth: 1969
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good..
Stuart stands and says, 'Come here,' and he's on my side of the room in one stride and he claps my hands to his hips and kisses my mouth like I am th….
....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe..
Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious.
Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools sa….
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of whi….
There is no trickier subject for a writer from the South than that of affection between a black person and a white one in the unequal world of segreg….
But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain't built up a callus yet..
President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. N….
Bosoms are for bedrooms and breastfeeding..
Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else..
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did..
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again..
Baby Girl," I say. "I need you remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?" She still crying steady, but the hiccups are gone. "….
Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked..
...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every sing….
I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Ob….
When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right..
She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me..
Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship..
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, Look how far weve come, because we hadnt come very far, to ….