“This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.”
“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.”
“The absence of God is nothing more than the absence of me.”
“fear is nothing more than the absence of faith!”
“I, for one, am ready for a lot more adventure and a lot less nothing.”
“All I am is less than I was. And I can't ever be more”