Becoming A Mother Has Helped Make Me

I'm An Underdog Person, So I Align Myself With Those Who Seem To Be Not Considered Valuable In Polite Society.

It's Not Just Nyu. There Are Days When I Feel Like I'm Stranded In Some Upscale Mall In Pasadena. Don't Even Get Me Started On The Insidious Transformation Of Bleecker Street!

But I Think There's A Genuine Joy, Too, A Sense That No Matter What, Even If My Stomach's Growling, I'm Going To Dance. That's What I Want To Leave People With At The End Of The Play. After All This, People Still Know How To Live.

Hybridity Keeps Me From Being Rigid About Most Things. It Has Taught Me To Appreciate The Contradictions In The World And In My Life. I Scavenge From The Best.

Writers And Scholars Have Emerged In Recent Times (some Familiar, Some New) To Continue To Challenge The Notion Of A Literature That Encompasses The World - And Reaffirms Our Existence In It. It Is A Multicultural Vision That Embraces And Includes Our Shrinking Universe; It Is A Multicultural Vision That The White Man Fears And A Vision That The Rest Of Us Can Celebrate.