Manifesto of Truths

Manifesto of Truths

 Manifesto of Truths: A Memoir in Fragments

Short excerpts from a life reclaimed.


These entries include fragments from my memoir, The Hand I Refused to Play, along with other truths drawn from my reflections, published writings, and lived experience. Some pieces come from larger works; others arrive as standalone moments — brief flashes of memory, clarity, or reckoning.

Each entry is intentionally short. Not full chapters, but windows. Glimpses into the story behind the story. Small truths that carry the weight of something larger, offered here as part of a life still unfolding.

A young person stands in a wide cotton field at sunset, holding a cotton boll in one hand and a book in the other, facing a distant industrial skyline under an orange‑pink sky.