Out Of Necessity Comes Genius.

You Never Know How People Are Going To Respond.

Me And My Sisters Were Taught That If Our Eyes Worked And Our Legs Worked, We Were Beautiful. We Had So Many Kids In Our Family That If We All Got In Front Of The Mirror And Were Ashamed Of Browns And Golds And Yellows And Whites, And We Believed What Society Told Us - That The Darker People Were Less Attractive And The Lighter Ones Were Prettier - We Would Have Had Sibling Murders. My Family, Being Half-rural And Half-military, Just Came From A Different Place.

Sometimes I'm Angry, Sometimes I'm Not Angry.

I Believe That If We Have To Pay 100 Percent For Our College Tuition, And Then We Get Into The Workplace, And We're Only Given 70 Percent Of Our Counterparts' Salaries, Then We Shouldn't Have To Pay But 70 Percent Of Our College Tuition. Maybe That'll Stop The Bullshit.

The African-american Community Is Not Monolithic. It's Liberal And Conservative.