Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.
I wish that she had had a black loon because I don't think that Nina [Simone] did. I have always had - I've been very fortunate - a group of little old ladies that I love and who love me, and who turned and to whom I turn at different times.
I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
Schools should be integrated by race and by class.
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice.