There Are Three Things I Was Born

In The West The Past Is Like A Dead Animal. It Is A Carcass Picked At By The Flies That Call Themselves Historians And Biographers. But In My Culture The Past Lives. My People Feel This Way In Part Because Death Does Not Separate Us From Our Ancestors.

[belafonte]'d Take Me To Perform For Martin Luther King's Cause. But When They Were Marching I Did Not Take Part, Because I Was Not A Citizen

In The Mind, In The Heart, I Was Always Home. I Always Imagined, Really, Going Back Home.

But If You Are Going To Wear Blinders Then You Do Not Know The World.

I See Other Black Women Imitate My Style, Which Is No Style At All, But Just Letting Our Hair Be Itself. They Call It The Afro Look.