Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.