Quotes on Tangle

I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?

I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.