History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.

Sometimes, I repeat myself, and that was a second elimination [of Barack Obama]. I worked with a team, including a great editor who, as the project came together, suggested other additions and eliminations. It was a process.

The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.

Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.