I Had A Series Of Childhood Illnesses...

I Believe In Me More Than Anything In This World.

My Doctor Told Me I Would Never Walk Again. My Mother Told Me I Would. I Believed My Mother.

I Tell Them That The Most Important Aspect Is To Be Yourself And Have Confidence In Yourself.

Black Women . . . Work Because Their Husbands Can't Make Enough Money At Their Jobs To Keep Everything Going. . . . They Don't Go To Work To Find Fulfillment, Or Adventure, Or Glamour And Romance, Like So Many White Women Think They Are Doing. Black Women Work Out Of Necessity.

What Do You Do After You Are World-famous And Nineteen Or Twenty And You Have Sat With Prime Ministers, Kings And Queens, The Pope? Do You Go Back Home And Take A Job? What Do You Do To Keep Your Sanity? You Come Back To The Real World.