Willodean Trace

“We need to better ourselves . . . fight racism. . . How? We talk. We learn. We think. Think before you say something racist. Does it need to be said? Does it help at all?”
― Art Rios, Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional

“I believe existence is meant to be a love story. ”
― Elizabeth Bristol, Mary Me: One Woman’s Incredible Adventure with God

“We rode back from Richmond decorously side by side on the top of a bus. It was as though my left side (her side) burned and was so to speak dissolving into steam, or gases. Other people may often have experienced this secret journeying with the intention of sex at the end, but I was new to it, as I was new to what Fulla had done to my skin and bone-marrow, my fingers and toes, not to mention the most obvious part, or parts of me. I could have stroked her, or gripped her, or licked her, all that long way back, but putting it off, waiting, keeping still, looking uninterested, was so much more exciting…”
― A.S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale

“The White House had decided that the conduct of the press, not the conduct of the President’s men, was the issue.”
― Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men