American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
I was born black and female.
Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!
That's what being eccentric means--being natural.
Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.