“I wrote my way out.”
“And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.”
“Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.”
“When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)”
“We wrote our names in the sandYou crossed mine out: I can't getback to the way I was.”
“My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M.So as not to be dead.”