Sex Was A Pleasurable Form Of Exercise,

Friends, To Me For Years St. Louis Represented A City Of Fear... Humiliation... Misery And Terror... A City Where In The Eyes Of The White Man A Negro Should Know His Place And Had Better Stay In It.

The Secret To The Fountain Of Youth Is To Think Youthful Thoughts.

The Things We Truly Love Stay With Us Always, Locked In Our Hearts As Long As Life Remains.

One Day I Realized I Was Living In A Country Where I Was Afraid To Be Black. It Was Only A Country For White People. Not Black. So I Left. I Had Been Suffocating In The United States... A Lot Of Us Left, Not Because We Wanted To Leave, But Because We Couldn't Stand It Anymore... I Felt Liberated In Paris.

What Am I Most Ashamed Of In My Life? Not Keeping My Promise To My Sister And Being Too Scared Of America To Attend Her Funeral.