Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.