revisiting an old post

revisiting an old book
"I am more comfortable in airports than I am in either of the houses I call, with undeserved nostalgia, Home. I am more comfortable in airports than I was in any of the eight different schools where I learned all of the things I now cannot remember. Airports are limbo spaces - blank, undemanding, nuetral. Expectations are clear. I am the passenger. I am coming or going. I am late, on time, or early. I must have a ticket. I must have identification. I must not carry a weapon. Beyond these qualifications, I do not have to define this body. I do not have to belong to one camp, school, or race, one fixed set of qualifiers, adjectives based on someone else's experience. I do not have to remember who, I, or anyone else, thinks I am. I am transitional space, place of a thousand hellos and a million goodbyes." -Rebecca Walker

Saturday February 16, 2008 - 12:37pm (PST) Permanent Link 0 Comments