I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

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

It's just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don't even leave that apartment. I have just enough: a little bed, a little kitchen with two pots. I make some tea and I look out the window or just lay down.

All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.