when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young people, for young people are always perfect and beautiful until they are not, until the moment they just are not.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!