Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

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.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.