I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.

I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)

I think what a family is shouldn't be so hard to see. It should be the one thing people know just by looking at you.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing, " Grandma says. "You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need...

Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.

Sameron adion asoI shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

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Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

I have a beautiful, big bathtub.

I guess I haven't gotten over being lost, a wandering gypsy.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.

If anyone can achieve the impossible it’s you. Please, please, get it again.