As I Get Older, It's A Time

Me And My Sisters Were Taught That If Our Eyes Worked And Our Legs Worked, We Were Beautiful. We Had So Many Kids In Our Family That If We All Got In Front Of The Mirror And Were Ashamed Of Browns And Golds And Yellows And Whites, And We Believed What Society Told Us - That The Darker People Were Less Attractive And The Lighter Ones Were Prettier - We Would Have Had Sibling Murders. My Family, Being Half-rural And Half-military, Just Came From A Different Place.

We Have To Have Films About Action And Violence And Special Effects. That's The Sad Part, But You Know What? It's Not Me Doing It.

I Was Kind Of A Bouncy Kid. I Used To Roller-skate Into The Sides Of Cars.

I'm An Air Force Brat And I've Lived All Over The World And This Country And There Were People In My Community Who Were Gay - Nurses, Hairdressers, Designers - People Who Just Had A Different Way About Themselves.

The African-american Community Is Not Monolithic. It's Liberal And Conservative.