My Mother Helped Me Understand How Not

When You're A Black Woman, You Seldom Get To Do What You Just Want To Do; You Always Do What You Have To Do.

Progress Comes From Caring More About What Needs To Be Done Than About Who Gets The Credit

If The Times Aren't Ripe, You Have To Ripen The Times.

We Are Not A Problem People, We Are People With Problems.

I Think Of My Life As A Unity Of Circles. Some Are Concentric, Others Overlap, But They All Connect In Some Way. Sometimes The Connections Don't Happen For Years. But When They Do, I Marvel. As In A Shimmering Kaleidoscope, Familiar Patterns Keep Unfolding