There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.