Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable, my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.

When my birth parents were murdered, I stayed outdoors all night with the bodies. Years later in America, around fourteen, my psychiatrist explained to me that staying with the bodies that night made me fearless. He said that it made me an 'emotional exhibitionist' and told me never to let people convince me that I was weird for speaking with clarity and passion.

I'm not a 'strong warrior queen' like people think. I spend most of my day cooking and doing things with my sons.

I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm around black Americans'I feel very North African. North Africa and black America are both the creators of Kola Boof.

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

My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me.

I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.