Ever Since I've Been Blessed With Success,

When Black Women Are Down With You And In Your Corner, You Have An Ally That Will Move Heaven And Earth.

What I've Found About It Is That There Are Some Folks You Can Talk To Until You're Blue In The Face--they're Never Going To Get It And They're Never Going To Change. But Every Once In A While, You'll Run Into Someone Who Is Eager To Listen, Eager To Learn, And Willing To Try New Things. Those Are The People We Need To Reach. We Have A Responsibility As Parents, Older People, Teachers, People In The Neighborhood To Recognize That.

I Love To See A Woman In High-heeled Shoes. There's Something About The Curve Of The Feet Up The Leg To The Butt That's Really, Really Wonderful, And The Right Pair Of Shoes Can Give You The Right Silhouette.

My Friend Madea Has "attitude" That Comes With Wisdom. Back In Our Teens And Twenties, We Thought We Knew Everything And Made All Those Foolish Mistakes. Then, When We Got A Little Older, At Thirty, We Started Getting These Flashes Of Light, Revelations Of What A Great And Lucky Thing It Is That We Didn't Get Caught Doing Those Stupid Things Back Then. Around Forty, If We Are Lucky, We Stop Lying To Ourselves. Fifty And Above, We've Run Out Of Patience For Foolishness. Take Me To The Bottom Line.

I Try Not To Take On The Weight Or The Burden Of It. Once It's On The Paper, I Try To Leave It, Because I Want To Surrender To What I'm Supposed To Write About.