We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

Shakespeare must be a black girl.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.