This Week…

“I was surrounded by a language in which I could say only hello and thank you very much.”
— Ani DiFranco

“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
–Virginia Woolf

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot. But make it hot by striking.”
– William Butler Yeats

“There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.”
–Baruch Spinoza

“Buildings and bridges are made to bend in the wind, to withstand the world that’s what it takes”
–Ani Difranco

“Every play must have a secret that breaks open in the end.”
–Playwright Fatima Dike

“Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.”
–Peter Brook

“To be poor, gifted, and black.”
–My friend Kwame’s take on Nina’s Simone’s famous song “To be young, gifted and black.”

“Stop beating yourself up, it’s indulgent.”
–A friend talking about me and my writing process.