I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

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

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

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'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.

music became my refuge and then my salvation.