When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.
We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.
No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.
I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.