When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.