“Stories matter. Many stories matter.”
More than one story can be true at once.
The Danger of a Single Story · TEDGlobal, 2009Volume 2 · Coffee, language, light
The Book of Espressions
Six scenes. Six voices. A little mystery between the first pour and the last word.
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“All day long I can look forward to a popsicle.”
Pleasure can be small, specific and completely enough.
Joy · The New York Review of Books, 2013
“I like to cook, travel and dream.”
Domestic life and imagination belong in the same sentence.
Biography · Nikki Giovanni’s official site
“then I drink the coffee and watch the light come.”
The ritual before the work. Coffee first; then the light.
The Paris Review · Fall 1993
“I’m ready to have coffee by 6, usually with my husband.”
Coffee and company before the room where the writing begins.
1983 interview with Claudia Tate
“But I wanted that cup of coffee where I wanted to drink it.”
A cup of coffee as insistence: dignity, choice and equal treatment.
March on Washington · August 28, 1963