It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.

my thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp.