In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

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.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.