I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock.

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.