My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of ’sex slave’ and ’prostitute’ so much. I was a mistress!

There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to honor both God and our ancestors. So being in a country like America where nothing is hated more than the image of the black woman, even by black people'because her womb produces the black man and makes us black'I find it of grave importance to implement African images, and especially to produce media images that acknowledge the sexual power and fertility of black women.

As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.

People don't want truth, they just want trash.

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

I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D.C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.