I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.
“I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.”
“But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.”