None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.

I've never gotten used to winter and never will.

A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four. I drew the three other people in the family first, bodies and heads. And then, last, I began to draw myself - but gave up.

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.

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!

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