I have contemplated suicide only twice -- or perhaps 3 times.  I have resolved not to be a suicide because I love life which I know, better than death, which I don't, and which I suspect to be the ultimate bore.

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000

Reviewed by Lauren Michele Jackson

The New Yorker

April 25 & May 2, 2022