Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.