Catch Me, As If I Have Surely

Many European Countries Are Fascinated With Minorities From The United States. They Still See This Country As A World Power And They Covet That Power...i Was Approached By A Professor Once At The Sorbonne In Paris And Asked About Racism In This Country, And When I Reflected On Racism On The Streets Of Paris - You Know, I'd Be Considered An Arab There -well, She Didn't Want To Address That...it Just Goes To Show It Was Easier For Europeans To Study Racism In The United States Than It Is From Within The Belly Of The Beast.

Once Innocence--an All Too-brief State Of Being, If Such A One Exists--encounters Experience, It Is Transformed. If That Transformation Is Understood, It Becomes Knowledge. And If That Knowledge Is Employed, Then It Becomes Wisdom.

I've Spent My Whole Life In Chicago Being Asked Where Am I From, So That I Have A Sense Of Displacement That Also Is Very Psychologically Disorienting.

Catch Me, As If I Have Surely Been Out Committing A Violation Against You, My Sin Of Insisting On Existing Without You.

As Time Has Gone On And We're At The End Of The 20th Century And Major Publishing Is A Big Business, Yes, Of Course We're Going To Get A Lot Of Plain, Mediocre Trash. There Are A Lot Of Writers Who Get Huge Advances For Books That Don't Go Anywhere And They Have To Burn Them Somewhere Or Throw Them Away. I Always Think About All The Poor Trees That Have Been Sacrificed.