Be Careful What You Ask Of Heaven;

I'm Such A Control Freak. I Want To Control Even My Own Death. Decide When I Will Die And How.

The Source Of My Difficulties Has Always Been The Same: An Inability To Accept What To Others Seems Natural, And An Irresistible Tendency To Voice Opinions No One Wants To Hear . . .

Now Of Course We Have Black Historians, But They're Usually Men. We Get The Perspective Always, The Slanted Perspective, Of What Has Happened. The Battles, The Things Achieved, The Laws, But Where Are The People, The Families? What Happens Inside The Houses, Inside The Minds And The Hearts? That's What I'm Interested In.

There Is No Light Without Shadow, Just As There Is No Happiness Without Pain.

A Man Does What He Can; A Woman Does What A Man Cannot.