If You Were To Look

A Sport Has Its Own Built-in Integrity, Doesn't Need An Artificial One. Athletics Carries Its Own Set Of Truths, And Those Truths Are Diminished And Manipulated By People With Agendas.

If You Were To Look At Each Atom As A Universe Unto Itself, Think Of The Number Of Universes Within Each Of Us.

Sometimes A Book Is Better Than It Ever Had A Right To Be Because Of The History The Reader Brings To The Reading And Because Of The Methods Educators Use To Bring A Particular Story Alive.

...the Magnificent Seven Consisted Of One Swimmer Of Color, A Representative From Each Extreme Of The Educational Spectrum, A Muscle Man, A Giant, A Chameleon, And A One-legged Psychopath. When I Envision Us Walking Seven Abreast Through The Halls Of Cutter High, Decked Out In The Sacred Blue And Gold, My Heart Swells.

My First Book, 'running Loose', Was Censored Back In 1983 Or '84. Every Book I've Written Since Has Been Censored Somewhere.