To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am