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Because we trusted nothing, we endeavored to protect ourselves, boys becoming misogynistic and violent, girls turning duplicitous, all of us hopeless.

Did every step feel like the running leap a bird takes before flight?

Hip-hop, which is my generation's blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language.

There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private.

In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle.

When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders.

I will not let him see until none of us have any choices about what can be seen, what can be avoided, what is blind, and what will turn us to stone.

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.

Love don't just go away like that, Cille," Sandman said.
"It do.

I wanted to be my own heroine.

Replace ropes with bullets. Hound dogs with German shepherds. A gray uniform with a bulletproof vest. Nothing is new.

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

Would a human egg let itself be seen?

But I am not that eloquent, so I shut my mouth and smile.

And I get up because it is the only thing I can do.

I burn, and I hope.

When people ask me about my hometown, I tell them it was called after a wolf before it was partially tamed and settled.

To give life...is to know what's worth fighting for. And what's love.