My African Roots Made Me What I

You Never Forget The Discovery Years. First Kisses. The First Time You Try Certain Foods.

We All Have A Blind Spot And It's Shaped Exactly Like Us.

Art Has A Way Of Confronting Us, Of Reminding Us, Of Engaging Us, In What It Means To Be Human, And What It Means To Be Human Is To Be Flawed, Is To Be Contradictory, Is To Be Often Weak, And Yet Despite All Of These What We Would Consider Drawbacks, That We're Also Quite Beautiful. Spin Is The Opposite.

...one Of Those Very Bad Men That Not Even Postmodernism Can Explain Away.

Stories Are Hard. I Have Friends Who Knock Out Stories On A Weekly Or Monthly Basis, Like They're Running On Medicinal-strength Updike. But For Me A Story Is As Daunting A Prospect As A Novel.