No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.