I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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

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.

Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

I will bring you a whole person, You will bring me a whole person, And we will have us twice as much, Of love and everything.

The not so simple Truth is that we must be psychologically free in order to resist and we must resist in order to be free, and all of this requires an understanding of what bondage has been, of what it continues to be and of its ramifications for the future.