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

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.