I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women...I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is stopping the process of life.

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

You can call me Mama T anytime.

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apartheid everywhere around me.

I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women...I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is stopping the process of life.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.