Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.

Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you...

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.