I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

I live in an atmosphere of music.

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

I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.