I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.

The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.