Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.