I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings.

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black women and girls by black men'the fact that black men have a special prejudice against black women and generally don't protect them or attempt to understand them, and I cry an awful lot about that.

Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into bondage and assassinating the image of his own mother, because he himself wants to be white'I can assure you that Africa has known no greater Satan than the twins, Arab and Islam.