I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.

A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that you frequently don't realize how you're being slanted until very late in the game.

I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.

I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.

I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished.