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

If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.

If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.