A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.

People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling.

Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on, let's say that every possibility waits

When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not, to put it into action.

YOU NEVER NEED TO APOLOGIZEFOR HOW YOU CHOSE TO SURVIVE

It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm's way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.