I've been waiting years to have a conversation with Franchesa [Ramsey]! She's so funny and wicked smart. So that's really going to be the experience it's going to intelligent, layered, and hilarious.

Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

Being an Image Activist simply means to be in action of supporting, celebrating and creating honest images of a group you care about, or yourself.

My approach is to be honest-really honest-and consistent. That is what any growth will take. It is an issue I think [young] generation can be courageous enough to comb through.

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

It is not your duty to run from the devil but resist him and he will flew from you.

Love is all, what you put into it.!

you're going to love your way out of this.out of the hurt.out of the pain.you're going to love your way out of itand be free.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.