No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.

No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.

I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future

Who can be born black and not exult!

I have never been contained except I made the prison.