Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.

Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.

Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.