Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide

When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends.

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.

There's only one job in this world that gives you an office in the sky

I feel jealous, I want to be something your mind consumes the most.

He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.

If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.

Music can't save the world, but can make one a little calmer.

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.