I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.

I'm more like an oven than a microwave.

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.