The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society...
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose...
Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919) was “the first Black woman...
It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as...
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally...
