My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.