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I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.