Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever. — Ralph Ellison

...the way we talk...you know that our people like to talk around a subject even when there's no danger. They enjoy it, and if they know you well enough they're apt to leave their true subject unstated so you'll have to supply the missing meaning.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.