We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages.

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.