I try to see every day as a celebration.

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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

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

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.