We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.
I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of "I want to tell the people."