Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.