February 17, 2019 JMRL Blog “I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this.”
January 20, 2019 JMRL Blog “Jefferson’s advice on how to win friends and influence people did not have much appeal for a pugnacious John Adams.”
January 8, 2019 JMRL Blog “Sometimes, you will feel as if you have rowed right off the planet and are now rowing among the stars.”
October 17, 2018 JMRL Blog “What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments when you shouldn’t be?”
September 16, 2018 JMRL Blog “I was born with the devil in me . . . I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
September 2, 2018 JMRL Blog “We must never be a country that says there’s only one way to love, only one way to look, and only one way to live.”