I'm Trying To Find My Own Version

My Mom Would Leave Her Job, And There Would Be Throngs Of People Screaming And Banging On Our Car. I Come From A Very Private Family, But I Was Born Into A Public Family.

Here Is My Wish And My Desire And My Pledge As Well: That We Remember Our True Nature And Our Womanhood. That We Own And Know That We Are More Than Our Bodies And Yet Our Bodies Are These Sacred, Beautiful, Rhythmic Houses For Us.

I Don't Have The Luxury Of Not Going To Work When I Don't Feel Up To It. Most People Don't. On Those Days, I Acknowledge I Am Feeling F-cking Crappy, And I'm Not At My Best, And I Still Want To Or Need To Keep Walking Forward. I Have To Do Some Of My Best Work On My Worst Days. I Have To Look Pretty Even When I Don't Feel Pretty. There's A Way To Hold Both Things.

Nothing Goes To Windward Like A 747.

Sometime In My Second Year At Brown [university], I Took An Acting Class. And The Lightbulb Went Off For Me. I Fell In Love With It. I Realized That Everything I Was Afraid Of About Myself, All My Fears, Could Be Used In That World.